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William Ralph Inge

English author, Anglican dean and professor of divinity

1860–1954

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We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
“The Idea of Progress”, Romanes Lecture (27 May 1920), reprinted in Outspoken Essays: Second Series (1922)
- Animals
Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.
“Our Present Discontents” (August 1919) in Outspoken Essays (1919), p. 2
- Patriotism
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
“Patriotism” (August 1919) in Outspoken Essays (1919), pp. 42-43
- War & Peace
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: “My dear, we live in an age of transition.”
Assessments and Anticipations (1929), p. 261
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So the pendulum swings, now violently, now slowly; and every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
“Democracy and the Future” The Atlantic Monthly (March 1922)
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