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MANNIX, DANIEL: Irish Roman Catholic; b. at Charleville (33 m. n.n.w. of Cork), County Cork, Mar. 4, 1864. He was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, at St. Colman's College, Fermoy, and St. Patrick's College, Maynooth (1882-1890). Since 1891 he has been connected with the latter institution, where he has been professor of mental and moral philosophy (1891-94), professor of theology (1894-1903), and president (since 1903). In 1906 he was appointed domestic prelate to the pope, and in 1907 was made a senator of the Royal University of Ireland.

MANSEL, HENRY LONGUEVILLE: Church of England; b. at Cosgrove (33 m. s. of Northampton), Northamptonshire, Oct. 6, 1820; d. in London July 30, 1871. He was educated at the University of Oxford, where his course was exceptionally brilliant; was ordained deacon (1844) and priest (1845). After graduation he tutored privately, meanwhile prosecuting studies in ancient and modern languages and in ecclesiastical history. He was appointed reader in mental and modern philosophy in Magdalen College (1855); Bampton lecturer (1858); Waynflete professor of moral and mental philosophy (1859); "professor fellow" of St. John's (1864); professor of ecclesiastical history (1866); and dean of St. Paul's, London (1868).

Hansel was eminent both as an author and as a teacher in the department of logic, and a fruit of this side of his activities is his edition of H. Aldrieh's Artis logicte rudiments (London, 1862). His favorite themes, however, were those of metaphysics, but he passed into this realm by the path of psychology, a result of which was his Prolegomena logica, an Inquiry into the Psychological Character

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of Logical Processes (1851, 2d ed., 1860). In spite of his preference for metaphysics, he commanded a lesser degree of attention there than he had in the logical field. His Metaphysics; or the Philosophy of Consciousness Phenomenal and Real (Edinburgh, 1860) is concerned with psychological problems, including causality and ethics; his Philosophy of the Conditioned (London, 1866) is a defense against Mill of the philosophy of Hamilton; but the best results of his work as a metaphysician are to be found in a prior work, the Bampton Lectures, The Limits of Religious Thought Examined (Oxford, 1858), in which he sought to apply Hamilton's philosophy of the conditioned to apologetic uses. Other works, showing the range of his activity, are: Demons of the Wind and Other Poems (London, 1838); Letters, Lectures and Reviews (pos thumous; 1873); and Gnostic Heresies of the First and Second Centuries, ed. J. B. Lightfoot (1875). When he died, he was at work on a commentary on Matthew for the Bible Commentary which he left unfinished. He also edited, in collaboration with John Veiteh, Hamilton's Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic (4 vols., Edinburgh, 1859-60), and published a volume of Lenten Sermons (1863), as well as individual sermons on occasional topics.

Bibliography: J. W. Burgon, The Lives of Twelve Good Men, ii. 149-237, London, 1889; DNB, xxxvi. 81-83.

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