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

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

The family is the school of duties - founded on love

The family is the school of duties - founded on love

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built,...

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built,...

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder...

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder...

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

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

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but...

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but...

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers...

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers...

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

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

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial...

An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial...

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly...

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly...

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material...

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material...

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a...

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a...

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will...

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will...

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without...

FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without...

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at...

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at...

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

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

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.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the...

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the...

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms...

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms...