Yet Hooker, Hardee, and Cheatham were men to whom personal fear was a meaningless phrase.

Hooker was the inspirer if not the author of the Fundamental Laws and was of wide political as well as religious influence in organizing "The United Colonies of New England" in 1643the first effort after federal government made on this continent.

Hooker was personally a compound of sweetness and light, and his philosophy is marked by sweet reasonableness.

Richard Hooker (1554?-1600), the "judicious," was Master of the Temple.

HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM, botanist, born at Norwich; was professor of Botany in Glasgow from 1820 to 1841, after which he held the post of Director of Kew Gardens; his writings in botany are numerous (1785-1865).

Though Hooker was not a total-abstainer, Chancellorsville is not to be explained by that fact any more than