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Felix Adler

" An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. "

World , Desire , Gain , Possession

" 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. "

Religion , Faith , Improvement

" 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. "

People , Country , Time , May , Independence , Evening

" Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. "

Experience , Intellect

" 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. "

Knowledge , Desire , Writers , Order , Information , Law , Legal

" 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. "

People , Country , Civilization , Attention , Wealth , Labor

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

Love , Fashion

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

Country , Love , Woman

" 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. "

Power , Today , Numbers , Church

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

Religion , State , Church , Purity