Brumbaugh, M: Moral Training of the Young-Pedagogical Princi

Excerpt from Moral Training of the Young-Pedagogical Principles and Methods, And, What an Ethical Culture Society if For

I have been interested in the Ethical Society, not only on account Of the basis it offers, but the common meeting ground which it gives to those of different beliefs, not only because it brings ethics thus to the front, but because the Ethical Society as an association represents the ear nest endeavor On the part Of individuals to combine on behalf Of the interests that are most precious and impera tive. And I take it that these interests which have been at work in the organization and that have drawn me per sonally to a closer association with the Ethical move ment, are those which have animated the efforts of your leaders, here and elsewhere. An Ethical Society is not primarily a protest against other religious organizations. It is not born Of any failure to appreciate the enormous service rendered to the world by every institution that in any way seeks to conserve the ethical interests Of hu manity. There are few associated with the Ethical move ment, I take it, who do not realize the debt of the world to every phase of organized religion, every great system which has given its great ethical enunciations and exer cised an in¿uence towards a larger and nobler relation ship Oi men and men. The Ethical Culture movement represents an endeavor to gather together the best in ¿uences and teachings, the highest reaches Of thought and imagination which the world has anywhere and every where expressed, in order that they may be brought to a focus upon the conditions of our own time and the prob lems of our personal lives. And it is significant that there184 what AN ethical culture society IS for.

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