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Title: Outspoken Essays

Author: William Ralph Inge

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Language: English

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OUTSPOKEN ESSAYS

BY

WILLIAM RALPH INGE, C.V.O., D.D.

DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S

FIFTH IMPRESSION

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS

1920

PREFACE

All the Essays in this volume, except the first, have appeared in the
_Edinburgh Review_, the _Quarterly Review_, or the _Hibbert 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 Indictment
against Christianity_ are from the _Quarterly Review_; those on
_Institutionalism and Mysticism_ and _Survival and 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 excised.

CONTENTS

PAGE

I. OUR PRESENT DISCONTENTS 1

II. PATRIOTISM 35

III. THE BIRTH-RATE 59

IV. THE FUTURE OF THE ENGLISH RACE 82

V. BISHOP GORE AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND 106

VI. ROMAN CATHOLIC MODERNISM 137

VII. CARDINAL NEWMAN 172

VIII. ST. PAUL 205

IX. INSTITUTIONALISM AND MYSTICISM 230

X. THE INDICTMENT AGAINST CHRISTIANITY 243

XI. SURVIVAL AND IMMORTALITY 266

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