Today, sixteen years ago, on January 6, 1859 (December 3, 1858) the British philosopher Samuel Alexander was born. Alexander (1859-1938) Alexander, British philosopher. New Realist. Born in Sydney, Australia, on January 6, 1859, and died on September 13, 1938. Taught at the Wellesley College of Melbourne and the Bealey College of the University of Oxford, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Oxford Lincoln College in 1882, and in 1893 he was hired as a professor of philosophy at the University of Manchester. Alexander saw the abstract "space time" as the foundation and source of experience in the universe, and on this basis established a comprehensive system of theory of idealism. He believed that the process of generating space and time of all things was a special development, and he called this process "abstract evolution