CIVILISED MEN

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 300, 19 September 1928, Page 11

CIVILISED MEN

DEAN INGE’S VIEW IMMORTAL SPIRITS ON PROBATION S' INFLUENCE OF FALSIFIED HISTORY (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copy rigli t.) (Australian Press Association.) London September 17. Dean Inge, in his presidential address at the Modern Churchman’s Conference at Cambridge, reached the conclusion that we are immortal spirits on probation,- and have millions of years in which to work out our salvation. As a species the notion that civilised man is a very new experiment of Nature had hardly yet sunk into our minds. Incidentally, Dean Inge argues that falsified history has, perhaps, more influence than true. “Consider,” he said, “the mythical saints of the Church of Rome, its bogus miracles and patriotic figments upon which the children of all nations are brought up. Historians may decide whether St. George killed dragons, or was a dishonest army contractor who poisoned the Roman soldiery with bad beef, and whether St. Joan of Arc was all for French patriotism as Mr. Bernard Shaw declares, or was a barmaid who became a regimental mascot.”