3-034-548 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Very Rev. H. L. Mansel, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, 1871. Engraving from a photograph by John Watkins, of '...a scholar and clergyman of high distinction, and author of some books on abstruse controversies of mental philosophy, in which Mr. John Stuart Mill and the Rev. F. D. Maurice were his opponents...In 1854 Mr. Mansel produced a treatise, entitled "Man's Conception of Eternity: An Examination of Mr. F. D. Maurice's Theory of a Fixed State out of Time." In 1855 he was appointed reader in moral and metaphysical philosophy to Magdalen College, and delivered an inaugural lecture on psychology, which was published shortly afterwards. In 1856 he published a series of lectures on the philosophy of Kant: in 1857 he wrote the article on metaphysics for the eighth edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica;" and was elected Bampton Lecturer for 1858...In 1862 he published a treatise on "Metaphysics, or the Philosophy of Consciousness, Phenomenal and Real," a second edition of which appeared four years later; and in 1863 he contributed a paper to a publication of Sir J. Napier's on Miracles. In 1866 he was appointed Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford, and Canon of Christ Church'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.