"Candour, moral courage, intellectual honesty, scrupulous accuracy, chivalrous fairness, endless docility to facts, disinterested collaboration, unconquerable hopefulness and perseverance, manly renunciation of popularity and easy honours, love of bracing labour and strengthening solitude; these, and many other cognate qualities," says Baron von Huegel, "bear upon them the impress of God and His Christ." What Dr.Inge, who quotes these words, says of Plotinus declares his own character.

He speaks of "the intense honesty of the man, _who never shirks a difficulty or writes an insincere word_." But though he is associated in the popular mind chiefly with modernism, Dr.Inge is not by any means only a controversial theologian.

Above and beyond everything else, he is a mystic.

You may find indications of this truth even in a book like _Outspoken Essays_, but they are more numerous in his two little volumes, _The Church and the Age_ and _Speculum Animae_, and of course more numerous still in his great work on Plotinus[5].

He is far more a mystic than a modernist.