Outspoken Essays [Paperback]

William Ralph Inge (Author)

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Publication Date: January 31, 2008

PREFACE ALL the Essays in this volume, except the first, have appeared in the Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly Review, or the Hz bert Journal. I have to thank the Publishers and Editors of those Reviews for their courtesy in permitting me to reprint them. The articles on The Birth-Rate, The Future of the English Race, Bishop Gore and the Church of England, and Cardinal Newman are from the Edinburgh Review those on Patriotism, Catholic Modernism, St. Paul, and The IIndictnaent against Christianity are from the Quarterly Review those on Institutionalism and Mysticism and Survival ancl Immortality from the Hibbert Journal. I have not attempted to remove all traces of overlapping, which I hope may be pardoned in essays written independently of each other but a few repetitions have been excieed. . PAGB I. OUR BESE D N ISC T ON TENTS . . . 1 U. PATIUOTISM . . . . . 36 III. THE BIBTE-RATE l d . . 69 IV. THE FUTURE O B THE ENGLISHR ACE. . l 82 V. BISHOP G ORE m THE CHURCH OB ENGLAND . 106 VI. ROW CATHOLIO MODERNISM . . 137 VII. CARDINAL NEWBUN . . . . . . 172 VIII. ST. PAUL . . . . . . 205 IX. IN TITUTION A N S D M M YSTICISM . . 230 X. TH3EC INDIC E AG N AI T NS T C I. BISWTY . . 243 XI, S V I V B L m O R T A L I T Y . . . . 266 JI6rcpa BiAas uoi aA6a qchv 84 Akyyw, 9 u Afp dAvBi pa c, j y p , i K U L S . Euripida The case of historical writers is hard for if they tell the truth they provoke man, and it they write what is fake they off end God.-Matthew Paris. Quattuor sunt maxime comprehendendae veritatis offendicula videlicet, fragilis et indignae auctoritatis exemplum, consuetudinis diuturnitas, vulgi sensus imperiti, et propriae ignorantiae occultatio cum ostentatione sapientiae superioris.--Roger Bacon. Iudicio perpende et si tibi vera videntur, Dede manus aut si falsum est, accingere contra. LUCTelius. Eventu renun stolidi didicere msg istro. CluucZian. AAA fi 701 p2v aG a BtGv iv yoivacrb c i a . Eom. er. OUTSPOKEN ESSAYS OUR PRESENT DISCONTENTS THE Essays in this volume were written at various times before and during the Great War. In reading them through for republication, I have to ask myself whether my opinions on social science and on theestate of religion, the two subjects which are mainly dealt with in this collection, have been modified by the greatest calamity which has ever befallen the civilised world, or by the issue of the struggle. I find very little that I should now wish to alter. The war has caused events to move faster, but in the same direction as before. The social revolution has been hurried on the inevitable counter-revolution has equally been brought nearer. For if there is one safe generalisation in human affairs, it is that revolutions always destroy themselves. How often have fanatics proclaimed the year one But no revolutionary ere has yet reached year twenty-five...

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• Paperback: 290 pages
• Publisher: Read Books (January 31, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1408639092
• ISBN-13: 978-1408639092
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.8 x 0.7 inches
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