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Felix Adler Quotes

German - Educator | August 13, 1851 - April 24, 1933

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

Teacher Office Thankless Public

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.

Simple Meeting Our Exercises Devoid

The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.

Society Church Sunday Ethical Custom

The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

Ethical Whole Ideal Rather Unified

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.

Time Anniversary People Evening May

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.

Today Power Church Numbers See Fail

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown.

Risks People Attention Wealth Labor

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.

Good Community Time Day Rest Legal

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.

Life Learning Criticism Stand Target

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.

Together Meeting Lost Serious Human

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

Love Good Best Woman Country Her

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

Love Love Is Fashion Two Expansion

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