Dr. John Beattie Crozier

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• Residence: 28-30 Colborne St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-130578
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Medical Student
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; U. Presbyterian
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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Dr. John Beattie Crozier born in Galt 23 Apr 1849. Obtained a scholarship to Galt Collegiate Institute where he because head boy. Attended University of Toronto returned to Galt due to depression and returned 4 years later. He saw medicine as a means to an end. He saw in his own mind his life's true work to study the problems of human existence hoping to better mankind. He moved to England where he published "The Religion of the Furture", "Civilsation and Progress", and "History of Intellectual Development" In addition he wrote "My Inner Life" and "Last Words on Great Issues" he died in 1921 in England.


Cambridge Mosiac, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [abbreviated snippet from original text in book]

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"Mr. John Beattie Crozier has risen by his talents to be an M. B., L. R. C. P., practising in London, England, where two pamphlets written by him, entitled " God or Force, " and " Considerations on the Constitution of the World, " have attracted considerable attention in philosophic circles"


Reminiscences of the Early History of Galt and the Settlement of Dumfries in the Province of Ontario, by James Young

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John Beattie Crozier, a British philosopher, whose 1885 book Civilization and Progress reached a fourth edition and was translated into Japanese, was a native of Galt. He was one of the many natives of Waterloo County who achieved their fame in other parts of the world.

His father, Thomas Crozier, a stone mason who built a long stone cottage on Colborne Street, Galt, and his mother, were natives of Liddlesdale, Scotland.

Dr. Crozier attended Dr. Tassie's School. He graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1872 and practiced in London, England.

In addition to Civilization and Progress he also wrote The Religion of the Future, Intellectual Development, My Inner Life (an autobiography), The Wheel of Wealth, Sociology Applied to Practical Politics and Last Words on Great Issues. He died in London, England.

The Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

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He is buried in Kensall Rise Cemetery (grave ref 46230) in West London, UK alongside his wife Katherine Augusta (nee Anderson) who died in December 1918. They married 18 February 1878 at St Marylebone Parish Church, West London and had three children (Gladys b.1878, Percy Beattie b.1880 and Constance b.1883).


Colin Perry email 2016

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Dr. J. B. Crozier


DR. JOHN BEATTIE CROZIER (born at Galt, Canada, on April 23, 1849; died in London on January 8) was a thinker who knew how to combine philosophic breadth with scientific substance. His first master in speculative thought was Herbert Spencer, but he soon began to deviate from what he took to be the materialistic outcome of Spencer's psychology. The fault he found was that Spencer, in investigating mind, failed to view it adequately except from the objective side, as correlated with the brain and nervous system. This correlation itself Crozier accepted in the most thoroughgoing way; but, as the body is an organic unity, so also, he held, must the mind be unitary; and, by introspection, he found a "scale in the mind," not unlike that of the Platonic psychology, though it was for him an independent discovery. In this scale, truth, beauty, and love are at the top; such feelings as honour, ambition, and self-respect in the middle; and such qualities as greed and, in general, animal appetite at the bottom. This led Crozier to a metaphysical doctrine (though he was inclined to repudiate the term metaphysics) according to which the higher attributes of mind are superior not only in quality, but also, correspondingly, in ultimate strength.

Dr. J. B. Crozier : Abstract : Nature. (2017). Nature.com. Retrieved 28 January 2017, from https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v106/n2674/abs/106700a0.html

John — Katherine Augusta Anderson. Katherine died Dec 1918; was buried , Kensall Rise Cemetery, West London, England. [Group Sheet]