Henry MANSEL

The Philosophy of the Conditioned

MANSEL, H.L. The Philosophy of the Conditioned comprising some remarks on Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy and on Mr J.S.Mill’s Examination of that Philosophy. London, Alexander Strahan 1866
Octavo, original publishers purple cloth, spine lettered gilt, pp.vii, (1), 189 a fine copy
First edition.

Henry Longueville Mansel [1820-1871] was a metaphysician, theologian, Oxford professor and follower of Sir William Hamilton. Author of The Limits of Religious Thought 1858 which Mill described in a letter to Bain in January 1863 “detestable, to me absolutely loathsome book”. Mansel reciprocated Mill’s dislike, he thought Mill’s teaching “utterly mischievous”. Mineka, The Later Letters of John Stuart Mill, letter no.572.
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