A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Adam, Professor Charles
Adam, Professor Charles, D. es L., French philosopher. B. Dec. 14, 1857. Ed. Sedan, St. Omer, Douai, and Paris. He occupied the chair of philosophy at, in succession, Toulon (1880-81), Bar-le-Duc (1881-82), Clermont-Ferrand (1882-83), Nancy (1883-85), and Dijon (1885-97)! Since 1902 Professor Adam has been Rector of the Nancy Academy and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. He has edited the works of Descartes, and has written several notable volumes on philosophy. In his valuable history of French philosophy (La philosophie en France, 1894) he says: "Philosophy and politics leave theses to theology, which digs them up from a remote past, and are modestly content with hypotheses " (p. 437).