Cassels, W(alter) R(ichard)

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Cassels, W(alter) R(ichard) (1826—1907) Cassels spent much of his early life in India, serving in the Legislative Council of Bombay from 1863 to 1865. Only after his Supernatural Religion: An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation went into a sixth printing did it occur to others that the popular work which was published anonymously was his. A nephew of Dr. Pusey, Cassels wrote under his own name Eidolon and Other Poems (1850) and A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot’s Essays (1889). In a scholarly criticism of the Bible he confessed a belief in an impersonal God, but he later rejected this and professed agnosticism. {BDF; FUK; RAT; RE}