Ignatius Singer

Ignatius Singer (c. 1853–1926) was a British writer and speaker on scientific, economic, philological and theological topics during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[3] The collection, devoted to the principal Asiatic and European languages, was edited by the English orientalist Edward Henry Palmer (1840-1882).

He is a little, old-style chap, with a stoop, but having a splendid head and a keen bright eye... with his determined face and his grotesque headgear... Germanish from habit to dress, though he has more of the French politeness than the Teutonic gruffness."

His speeches were found impressive, "but the drawback to his general acceptance as a speaker is the unintelligibility which a thick foreign accent imparts to him".

[6] Working with Lewis Berens (1855–1913), Singer played a major part in establishing and editing a radical weekly journal, Our Commonwealth,[7] a predecessor of The Herald of Adelaide.

Their exhaustive analysis holds attention and forces conclusions as to many of the terms and conventions of modern science, some of which have claimed the highest prerogative..."[19] The magazine The New Age was reported to have "devoted seven columns of not altogether unfavourable criticism" to the book, claiming "That it propounds a new theory of heat, light, magnetism and electricity".

[14] The work also received an extensive review in the magazine Popular Science for October 1897, which regarded it as "a brave attempt to solve" the "riddle of the universe".

[25] His paper on "The causes of the progress and retardation of the artificial color industry in England" was published in the Journal of the Society of Dyers and Colorists for May 1910.

[2] Singer's 1917 booklet The Theocracy of Jesus[27][28] was reviewed with apparent approval in the magazine The Humanist, which gave the work's message as follows: "As a theology Christianity stands self-condemned.

He puts before us, as new discoveries, theories that are hoary with old age..."[33] The New Statesman had a different view, saying "We must be grateful to the author for his, at times, brilliant insistence on the truth that only by accepting the principles of Jesus can humanity work out its early destiny and establish a just and stable civilisation".