In six lectures delivered to undergraduates of the University of Cambridge, Mr. Inge’s object “is to commend Christianity as a religious system to the attention of thoughtful young men.... He candidly admits the difficulties of the subject, and recognizes the defects of much of the current Christianity and the value of modern scientific and philosophical thought. Religion, he holds, is not chiefly an affair of the intellect; the necessary postulate, or act of faith, is the belief that our higher reason is in vital ontological communion with the power which lives and moves in all things, and most chiefly in the spirit of man.” (Nation.)
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“Though we cannot regard his treatment of the Logos idea as convincing, we can heartily commend the spirit of his lectures.”
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“Thoroughly judicious and constructive.”
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Ingersoll, Ernest. Eight secrets. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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“This is the life story of an ingenious American boy who works out his destiny despite all sorts of difficulties and dangers and who is helped in his struggle by a wideawake girl. Both live in a simple Pennsylvania village and both are endowed with unusual inventive talent, which enables them to do things of a rather extraordinary nature.”—Lit. D.