Then, in a lower key, "It was not through animism and necromancy that the Jews came to believe in immortality." How did they reach that belief?
"By thinking things out, and asking the question, Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right ?" The answer is characteristic.

Dr.Inge has thought things out; everything in his faith has been thought out; and the basis of all his thinking is acceptance of absolute values--absolute truth, absolute goodness, absolute beauty.

No breath from the class-rooms agitated by Einstein can shake his faith in these absolutes.

His Spirit of the Universe is absolute truth, absolute goodness, absolute beauty.

He is a Neoplatonist, but something more.