Quotes:Mansel, Henry Longueville

Zirkoff, Boris

Mansel, Henry Longueville (1820-1871). English philosopher, b. at Cosgrove, Northamptonshire, Oct. 6, 1820; d. July 31, 1871. Educ. at 465 Merchant Taylor's School and St. John's Coll., Oxford. Appointed reader in moral and metaphysical philosophy at Magdalen College, 1855, and Waynflete professor, 1859. Opposed university reform and Hegelianism. Prof. of ecclesiastical history, 1867, and Dean of St. Paul's, 1868. His philosophy followed Aristotle and Kant; he taught the duality of consciousness as testifying to both self and the external world, and denied all knowledge of the supersensuous. Works: Prolegomena logica, 1851; 2nd ed., 1862.—The Limits of Religious Thought, 1858; 5th ed., 1867.—The Philosophy of the Conditioned. London: A. Strachan, 1866.—The Gnostic Heresies, 1875.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, pp. 464-465

Mansel, Henry Loncueville (1820-71). *The Limits of Religious Thought Examined in Eight Lectures, Oxford, 1858; 1st Amer, ed., Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1859. — See Vol. VIII, pp. 464-65, for biogr. data.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 581