( up. BosenmUller, Altertk. iii. 261; Ewald, ii. 53)
Winer. The location of Barneses is doubtless indicated by the present '/'.// l:<im<i.<. a quadrangular mound near Belbeis. See Bi d Sf v. Passage oi .
\" n mm,, in for determining under what dynasty thi l ode happened has been founded on the name Barneses, which ha- been supposed to indicate a royal builder. S.c PHARAOH. We need only say that the highest 'late to which I.'; 'Ses I can be reasonably as- signed (B.C. 1302 i i- inconsistent with the true date of
th l odi (B.i altl gh we find .a prince of
the same name two centuries earlier, so that the place
might have taken its name either from this prince.
or a yet earlier kin- or prince Barneses. That the last supposition is the true one bo ms to be established
by the occurrence of the name in Gen. xlvii, 11, as
early as the time of Joseph (B.C 1874). See Ciiro-
KOl '".V.
Rames'se (Papanrif), the Greek form (Judith i, '.'i of the name of the land of BAMESES (q. v.).
Rami'ah tlb-h. Ramyah',ft*Xl'i, fated of Jehovah; Sept. "Papid), an Israelite of the son.- of Parosh, who divorced his Gentile wife under the influence of Ezra (Ezra .x. 25). B.C. 458.
Ramirez, Francisco, a Boman Catholic prelate of Mexico, was born in the city ol Mexico in 1823. He early decided upon the priesthood, and was educated at home and in Europe, w here he in came a great favorite with many distinguished ecclesiastics, and therefore en- joyed rapid promotion in oflSce. Alter holding various positions of responsibility, be became identified with the opposition against Juarez in politics, and prepared the way for the imperial rule under Maximilian, lie was then bishop of Caradro. Winn tin- empire had been established, Bamirez became the- emperor's almoner, ami subsequently cabinet councillor. He was also made vic- ar apostolic of Tamaulipas, Mexico. With the downfall of Maximilian, Bamirez's stay in Mexico became' an im- possibility. He cse-ape-el to Texas, and lived in obscurity ami want ai Brazos Santiago until Julj 18, 1869.
Ramists, the followers of l'eter Ramus, a French logician in the 16th century, who distinguish* d himself by his opposition to the philosophy "l Aristotle. From the high estimation in which the Stagyrite was at that time held, it was accounted a heinous crime to contro- vert his opinions; and Ramus, accordingly, was tried and condemned as being guilty of subverting sound morali- ty and religion. The se.lc ground of his offence was that he hail framed a system of logic at variance with that ot Aristotle. "The attack which Ramus made," says the eleler M'Crie, in bis Lift of Melville, "on the Peripatetic philosophy was direct, avowed, powerful, persevering, ami irresistible, lie possessed tin acute mind, acquaintance with ancient learning, an anient love of truth, and invincible courage in maintaining it. He hail applied himself with avidity to the study of the logic of Aristotle; ami the- result was a conviction that, it was an instrument utterly unlit tin- discovering truth in any of the sciences, and answering no other purpose than that of scholastic wrangling and digladiation. His conviction he communicated to tin- public; ami. in spite of all the resistance made by ignorance and i rejudice, he succeeded in bringing over a great part of tie- learn- ed world to his views. What Luther was in the ( Ihurch, Ramus v,as in tin- school-. lb- e,\ erthrew the infallibility of tin- Stagyrite, .and proclaimed the right of mankind to think lor themselves in matters of phi- losophy- a right which he maintained with the most undaunted fortitude, and which he sealed with his blood. If Ramus hail neit shaken the' authority of the long-venerated Organon of Aristotle, the- world might not have Been the Novum Organum e.f Bacon. The faults of the- Bamean system of dialectics hav< le acknowledged. It proceeded upon the radical princi- ples of the logic of Aristotle; its distinctions often turn- ed more upon weirds than things; and the artificial method and uniform partitions which ii prescribed in treating every subject were unnatural, and calculated te> flier, in-had of forwarding, the- mind iii tin discovery of truth. Rut it discarded many of the- useless specula- tions ami mui-h of the> unmeaning jargon respecting predicables, predicaments, ami topie-s which made' so
greal a figure in the' ancient logic. It inculcated u]
its disciples the necessity of accuracy .and order in ar- ranging their own ideas and in analyzing those of others.
And a- it advanced no claim to infallibility. Submitted all ils rules le. the- lest <>| prai'lical usefulness, .and set
tin- only legitimate end of the whole- logical apparatus constantly l" fore- the- eye- of the student, it- faults were -..on discovi red. and \ ielded readily to a more- improved method of reasoning and investigation."
After the death of Ramus his logic found very (X-
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