Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "The Land Ethic", p. 202.
“Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.”
Source: The Principles of Ethics (1897), Part II: The Inductions of Ethics, Ch. 1, The Confusion of Ethical Thought
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Context: It has never been natural, it has seldom been possible, in this country for learning to seek a place apart and hold aloof from affairs. It is only when society is old, long settled to its ways, confident in habit, and without self-questioning upon any vital point of conduct, that study can affect seclusion and despise the passing interests of the day.
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“The ethical element of religion has ever been its truly vital and quickening force.”
Felix Adler
(1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: The ethical element of religion has ever been its truly vital and quickening force. It is this which lends such majesty to the speeches of the Prophets, which gives such ineffable power and sweetness to the words of Jesus. Has this ethical element become less important in our age? Has the need of accentuating it become less imperative?
To-day, in the estimation of many, science and art are taking the place of religion. But science and art alike are inadequate to build up character and to furnish binding rules of conduct.
We need also a clearer understanding of applied ethics, a better insight into the specific duties of life, a finer and a surer moral tact.
