Manсел,

Manсел, HENRY LONGUEVILLE, Dean of St Paul's, was born at Cosgrove rectory, Northamp- tonshire, October 6, 1820. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, he became Reader in Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy in 1855, and Waynflete professor in 1859. Appointed regius professor of Ecclesiastical History, and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1867, he was made Dean of St Paul's in 1869. He died 31st July 1871. The pupil and continuator of Hamilton (q.v.), he differed from him in holding that there is immediate cognition of the conscious ego; and he went beyond his master in emphasising the relativity of knowledge in the province of theology—alleging that we have no positive conception of the attributes of God (see CONDITION). The agnostic tendency of this doctrine created violent controversy. His published works are Aldrich's Logic, with Notes (1849); Prolegomena Logica (1851); article 'Metaphysics' in 8th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1857), afterwards published separately; The Limits of Religious Thought (Bampton Lectures, 1858); The Philosophy of the Conditioned (1866), in reply to Mill's Review of Hamilton's Philosophy; and lectures on The Gnostic Heresies, edited by Lightfoot in 1874, with Life of Mansel by the Earl of Carnarvon. He was co-editor, with Professor Veitch, of Sir William Hamilton's Lectures. See Dean Burgon's Lives of Twelve Good Men (1888).