FeH, John, an English Independent minister, was born at Cockermouth, 1735, and became pastor at Thaxted, Essex. His earh' opportunities were not great, but by his talents and industry he became a very respectable scholar. He was made tutor in the ancient languages in the Dissenters' seminary at Horaerton. He is said to have " been dismissed from his ofBce there for reading newspapers on Sunday." His friends got him an annuity of £100, and he was "asked to deliver lectures on the Evidences at the Scots' Church, London Wall." He had only deliv- ered four when he died, Sept. G, 1797. He published (in controversy with Dr. Hugh Farmer, q. v.) Demo- niacs, an Inquiry into the Heathen and Scripture Doc- trine of Demons (London, 1779, 8vo) : — The Idolatry of Greece and Rome distinguisliedfrom that of other Heathen Nations (Lond. 1785, 8vo). After his death Dr. Hunt- er published his Lectures on the Ev'.d nccs (Lond. 1798, 8vo). — Bogue and Bennett, Hist, of Dissenters, ii, 518; Kitto, Cyclopedia, s. v. ; Darling, Cyclop. Bihliograph- ica, i, 1125.
Fellenberg, Piiilippe-Emanuel de, a philan- thropist and earnest laborer in the cause of education, was born at Berne, Switzerland, June 27, 1771. His father, who was a member of the government of Berne, laid the foundation of his intellectual culture, but he received his moral bent and self-sacrificing spirit from his mother, a great granddaughter of the Dutch admi- ral Van Tromp. After some time spent at the Uni- versit}' of Tul)ingen in the study of civil law, he de- voted himself especially to politics and philosophy. " In order to acquaint himself with the moral state of his countrj'men, he spent much of his time in travel- ling through Switzerland, France, and Germanj', usu- ally on foot, with his knapsack on his back, residing in the villages and farm-houses, mingling in the la- bors and occupations, and partaking of the rude lodg- ing and fare of the peasants and mechanics, and often extending his journej' to the adjacent countries."' On his return to Berne in 1798 he rendered important ser- vice as " commandant of the quarter" in the revolu- tionary troubles. In 1799 he purchased the estate called Hofvyl, two leagues from Berne, and founded there, successively, a scliool of agriculture, a manu- factorj' of agricultural implements, schools for the poor, for the better classes, and a normal school. He devoted the remainder of his life to education with great success, but not without opposition. He died Nov. 21, 1844. Sec Vericourt, Rapport stir les Insti- tuts de Hofwyl; Haam, Fellenherg's Lehen und Wirken (Berne, 1845) ; Iloefcr, Nouv. Biog. Ginirale, xvii, 307.
FeUer, Francis Xavier, a Flemish Jesuit, was horn at Brussels Aug. 18, 1785, entered the order of Jesuits in 1754, and died May 23, 1802. He was a vcr}' learned and voluminous writer, his publications amountuig to 120 volumes. Among tliem are Reply to Febronius [see Hontheim], 1771 : — Observnt. Philos. mr le Systeme de Newton (3d edit. Liege, 1778) : — Cate-
chisme Philosophique — Evidences of Christianity (5th edit. Lj'ons, 1819, 2 vols. 8vo) : — Dictionnaire-historique (Liege, 1818, 8 vols. ; 7th ed. Paris, 1829, 17 vols. 8vo): — Cours de Morale Chretitnne (Paris, 1825, 5 vols, 8vo). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gentrale, xvii, 309.
Felloes (D"')r'!i'n, chishshuMm' , joinings, 1 Kings vii, 33) proljalih' denotes rather the spokes that connect the rim with the hub of a wheel, being a kindred term with that used to denote the coupling-rods of the taber- nacle (Exod. xxvii, 10). See Chariot.
Fellow, besides its contemptuous use (as a ren- dering of aiX, a man, etc.), and its frequent employ- ment (usually as a rendering of ^"||i, a friend or equal), in the sense of companion, stands in one remarkable passage (Zech. xiii, 7) as the rendering of i'>^T2", amith', society, in the phrase ■'ri'^'2:> ISS, man of my association, i. e. my associate; corresponding with ■'i'"!, my shepherd in the parallel member, and referred to himself by our Saviour (Matt, xxvi, 31) as the great Pastor and Sacrifice for his people ; not so much in the sense of simple equalitj' of nature with the Father, as of copartnership with him in the great work of caring for and redeeming mankind. See Neighbor.
Fellow of a College. See Fellowship.
Fellowes, Robert, was born in Norfolk, Eng- land, in 1770 ; studied at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, took holy orders in 1795, and died in 1847. His theo- logical speculations gradually led him to reject the doctrines of the Established Church, and to adopt the opinions found in his Religion of the Unicerse, publish- ed in London in 1836. He was an intimate friend of Dr. Parr and baron Maseres, the latter of whom left him the greater part of his large fortune, to be dis- pensed in literarj' and benevolent enterprises. He was for some time editor of the London Critical Review , He was an early advocate of the establishment of the University of London, of which he was a liberal bene- factor. Among his works are Christian Philosophy (1798, 2d ed. 1799, 8vo) : — Supplement to do. : — Religion without Cant (1801, 8vo) : — Guide to Immortality (1804, 3 vols. 8vo) -.—Manual of Piety (1807, 8vo) :—A Body of Theology (1807, 2 vols. 8vo). — Appleton, Cyclopeedia, s. v. ; Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 584.