Besides the works already mentioned, he published the _Portraiture of Quakerism_ (1806), _Memoirs of William Penn_ (1813), _Researches, Antediluvian, Patriarchal and Historical_ (1836), intended as a history of the interference of Providence for man's spiritual good, and _Strictures_ on several of the remarks concerning himself made in the _Life of Wilberforce_, in which his claim as originator of the anti-slavery movement is denied.
See the lives by Thomas Elmes (1876) and Thomas Taylor (1839).
CLARKSVILLE, a city and the county-seat of Montgomery county, Tennessee, U.S.A., situated in the N. part of the state, about 50 m. N.W. of Nashville, on the Cumberland river, at the mouth of the Red river. Pop. (1890) 7924; (1900) 9431, of whom 5094 were negroes; (1910 census) 8548. It is served by the Louisville & Nashville, and the Illinois Central railways, and by passenger and freight steamboat lines on the Cumberland river. The city hall, and the public library are among the principal public buildings, and the city is the seat of the Tennessee Odd Fellows' home, and of the South-Western Presbyterian University, founded in 1875. Clarksville lies in the centre of the dark tobacco belt--commonly known as the "Black Patch"--and is an important tobacco market, with an annual trade in that staple of about $4,000,000, most of the product being exported to France, Italy, Austria and Spain. The city is situated in a region well adapted for the growing of wheat, Indian corn, and vegetables, and for the raising of live-stock; and Clarksville is a shipping point for the lumber--chiefly oak, poplar and birch--and the iron-ore of the surrounding country, a branch of the Louisville & Nashville railway extending into the iron district. The city's principal manufactures are flour and grist mill products, chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff, furniture, lumber, iron, and pearl buttons. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $2,210,112, being 32% greater than in 1900. The municipality owns its water-works. Clarksville was first settled as early as 1780, was named in honour of General George Rogers Clark, and was chartered as a city in 1850.
CLASSICS. The term "classic" is derived from the Latin epithet _classicus_, found in a passage of Aulus Gellius (xix. 8. 15), where a "_scriptor 'classicus'_" is contrasted with a "_scriptor proletarius_." The metaphor is taken from the division of the Roman people into _classes_ by Servius Tullius, those in the first class being called _classici_, all the rest _infra classem_, and those in the last _proletarii_.[1] The epithet "classic" is accordingly applied (1) generally to an author of the first rank, and (2) more particularly to a Greek or Roman author of that character. Similarly, "the classics" is a synonym for the choicest products of the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. It is to this sense of the word that the following article is devoted in two main divisions: (A) the general history of classical (i.e. Greek and Latin) scholarship, and (B) its place in higher education.