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in 1867, being occupied with a collection of the memoirs, critical and 

 philosophical, which he had contributed at various times to the " Trans- 

 actions of the Royal Academy." As the result of his inquiries respect- 

 ing the nature and foundations of morality, he published a work en- 

 titled Naturrecht auf dem Grunde der Ethik, which appeared in a 

 second edition in 1868. Second only to the "Logical Researches," 

 this book was the most thoughtful and original of his writings, and the 

 most characteristic of the man. Several smaller essays on the theory 

 of aesthetics need not be here enumerated. 



In 1849, probably to his own astonishment, the city of Berlin elected 

 him as one of its members to the lower houee of the National As- 

 sembly. Here he generally voted with the conservative party, and 

 published an essay on the methods of voting (ilber die Methode bei 

 Abstimmungen). When the cause of the union of Germany was 

 abandoned, he resigned his seat in the house, in 1851, and went back 

 to those academic labors which occupied his whole life, with the ex- 

 ception of this brief political episode. 



Henry Longueville Mansel, D. D., Dean of St. Paul's, died in 

 London, July 31, 1871. Though he had not completed his fifty-first 

 year, he had done the work of a long life. His publications were nu 

 merous and important, exerting manifest influence on the course of spec- 

 ulative thought not only in England, but wherever the moral sciences 

 had a home. As a scholar and a thinker in the various departments of 

 philosophy, he had hardly a rival on English ground after the death of 

 Sir William Hamilton. Equally eminent in logic, metaphysics, natural 

 and doctrinal theology, his writings never failed to attract notice and 

 command respect, though they often excited vehement controversy. 

 His Brampton Lectures on the " Limits of Religious Thought," first 

 published in 1858, when he was but thirty-eight years old, passed 

 through three editions in a twelvemonth, and have probably affected 

 the character of English thought in philosophy and theology more 

 than any single work which has appeared since the days of Bishop 

 Butler. In the earnest discussions which it immediately occasioned, 

 and in which such distinguished men as F. D. Maurice, James Mar- 

 tineau, Goldwin Smith, and John S. Mill had a prominent share, Mr. 

 Mansel appeared to great advantage. His stores of learning were im- 

 mense ; equally at home in Greek and German philosophy, in the 

 speculations of the Schoolmen, and in the writings of the fathers of the 



