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“The chief paradox of all is that a scholar whose culture is as broad as the world should have sympathies even narrower than his native island. The masterpiece of the whole volume is the attack on the ‘Anglican Catholic’ party in the Established church. In all the controversy that has raged since the Tracts for the Times, there has never been so witty and so merciless a diatribe as that in which the author exposes the pretensions of the Anglican Catholics.” Preserved Smith
+ − Nation 110:729 My 29 ’20 1050w
“Here, as a free-lance, as a critic of life, men, morals, institutions, dress, foods, the labor party, political economy and literature, Dean Inge is his true and powerful self. The scholar, the citizen and the preacher blend, and the acute observer joins them.” D. S. M.
+ New Repub 24:197 O 20 ’20 2600w
“Whatever may be thought of his scepticism and of his own attempt to rise through doubt to a position of inexpugnable faith, his destructive analysis of the various other attempts of the sort is the work of a master hand. The religious papers in this volume display what is rare in contemporary English literature, a highly trained philosopher in the pulpit. Dean Inge has written a remarkable book.”
+ Review 2:396 Ap 17 ’20 1400w + Spec 123:663 N 15 ’19 150w + Springf’d Republican p8 D 13 ’19 580w (Reprinted from The Times [London] Lit Sup p621 N 6 ’19)
“It is a work of rare excellence and importance. We have failed if we have not made clear that it contains a mature and comprehensive Christian philosophy. It shirks no difficulties, concedes nothing to popular sentiment, has the sternness of Jewish prophecy.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p621 N 6 ’19 2050w
INGERSOLL, ERNEST. Wit of the wild. il *$2 Dodd 591.5