The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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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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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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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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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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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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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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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
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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.
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