Author: Felix Adler

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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.

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

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

- Felix Adler

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

- Felix Adler

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.

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

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

- Felix Adler

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

- Felix Adler

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

- Felix Adler

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

- Felix Adler

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

- Felix Adler

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