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

~Felix Adler

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

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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.

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

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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

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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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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.

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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.

~Felix Adler

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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

~Felix Adler

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

~Felix Adler

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Educator

Born: August 13th, 1851

Died: April 24th, 1933

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