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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
Felix Adler
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
Felix Adler
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
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The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
Felix Adler
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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
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No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
Felix Adler
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Felix Adler
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
Felix Adler
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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