and uniform fairness.
Accordingly they possess value which is little affected by the progress
of criticism.

The most important of his works are:--_Beitraege zur Einleitung in das
Alte Testament_ (2 vols., 1806-1807); _Kommentar ueber die Psalmen_
(1811), which has passed through several editions, and is still
regarded as of high authority; _Lehrbuch der hebraeisch-juedischen
Archaeologie_ (1814); _Ueber Religion und Theologie_ (1815); a work of
great importance as showing its author's general theological position;
_Lehrbuch der christlichen Dogmatik_ (1813-1816); _Lehrbuch der
historisch-kritischen Einleitung in die Bibel_ (1817); _Christliche
Sittenlehre_ (1819-1821); _Einleitung in das Neue Testament_ (1826);
_Religion, ihr Wesen, ihre Erscheinungsform, und ihr Einfluss auf das
Leben_ (1827); _Das Wesen des christlichen Glaubens_ (1846); and
_Kurzgefasstes exegetisches Handbuch zum Neuen Testament_ (1836-1848).
De Wette also edited Luther's works (5 vols., 1825-1828).

See K. R. Hagenbach in _Herzog's Realencyklopaedie_; G. C. F. Luecke's
_W. M. L. De Wette, zur freundschaftlicher Erinnerung_ (1850); and D.
Schenkel's _W. M. L. De Wette und die Bedeutung seiner Theologie fuer
unsere Zeit_ (1849). Rudolf Staehelin, _De Wette nach seiner theol.
Wirksamkeit und Bedeutung_ (1880); F. Lichtenberger, _History of
German Theology in the Nineteenth Century_ (1889); Otto Pfleiderer,
_Development of Theology_ (1890), pp. 97 ff.; T. K. Cheyne, _Founders
of the Old Testament Criticism_, pp. 31 ff.

DEWEY, DAVIS RICH (1858- ), American economist and statistician, was
born at Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A., on the 7th of April 1858. He was
educated at the university of Vermont and at Johns Hopkins University,
and afterwards became professor of economics and statistics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was chairman of the state
board on the question of the unemployed (1895), member of the
Massachusetts commission on public, charitable and reformatory interests
(1897), special expert agent on wages for the 12th census, and member of
a state commission (1904) on industrial relations. He wrote an excellent
_Syllabus on Political History since 1815_ (1887), a _Financial History
of the U.S._ (1902), and _National Problems_ (1907).

DEWEY, GEORGE (1837- ), American naval officer, was born at Montpelier,
Vermont, on the 26th of December 1837. He studied at Norwich University,
t