The Ethical Manifold, Conceived Of As Unified,

By What Sort Of Experience Are We Led To The Conviction That Spirit Exists? On The Whole, By Searching, Painful Experience. The Rose Religion Grows On A Thorn-bush, And We Must Not Be Afraid To Have Our Fingers Lacerated By The Thorns If We Would Pluck The Rose.

The Unique Personality Which Is The Real Life In Me, I Can Not Gain Unless I Search For The Real Life, The Spiritual Quality, In Others. I Am Myself Spiritually Dead Unless I Reach Out To The Fine Quality Dormant In Others. For It Is Only With The God Enthroned In The Innermost Shrine Of The Other, That The God Hidden In Me, Will Consent To Appear.

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.

The Platform Of An Ethical Society Is Itself The Altar; The Address Must Be The Fire That Burns Thereon.

Dogma Is The Convictions Of One Man Imposed Authoritatively Upon Others.