Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. 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 Photera theleist soi malthaka pseydhe lhego, he sklher' alethhe; phrhaze, she gar he krhisist. _Euripides_. The case of historical writers is hard; for if they tell the truth they provoke man, and if they write what is false they offend 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. _Lucretius_. Eventu rerum stolidi didicere magistro. _Claudian_. 'All' he toi men tahyta thehon en gohynasi kehitai. _Homer_. I OUR PRESENT DISCONTENTS (AUGUST, 1919)