lf 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 class