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

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

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It is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient.

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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause....

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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.

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It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus

Felix Adler

Felix Adler
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Born: August 13, 1851
Died: April 24, 1933 (aged 81)
Bio: Felix Adler was a German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement.
Known for:
  1. Block-Heads
  2. Way Out West
  3. Our Relations
  4. A Chump at Oxford
  5. Three Little Pigskins

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