“He writes as powerfully and learnedly almost as Swift. He is also as skilful and as unfair a controversialist as Swift. In ‘The future of the English race’ he handles the results of modern ethnological research with easy mastery, and it is only the most careful of readers who will observe what a hiatus lies between the well-marshalled facts and the conclusions that insidiously follow.”
+ − Ath p1167 N 7 ’19 250w
“Among Dr Inge’s many virtues, which include critical acuteness, epigrammatic power and a remarkable ability to be fair to persons as distinct from causes that offend him, must be reckoned his fearlessness.”
+ Ath p1253 N 28 ’19 1400w + Booklist 17:49 N ’20
“What, however, makes his writing so intolerable is his patronizing way and his spirit of hauteur, as he stands aloof and with the unction of superiority passes judgment on men and things in the dogmatic spirit which he censures in others. Whatever may be said about his interpretations, we must recognize in him a prophet of candor, who utters the burden of truth with sublime disregard to personal consequences.” O. L. Joseph
+ − Bookm 51:237 Ap ’20 700w
“This book is replete with worth-while observations by a man of the world, able to see weak points, yet genially willing to accept conditions as in a large measure inevitable.”
+ Boston Transcript p7 Mr 13 ’20 300w
“There is so much excellent modern rationalism in Dean Inge’s commerce with facts and tendencies that one cannot well forgive him for living emotionally in the dingy atmosphere of the century-old Malthus.”