“Already complaints are multiplying on every hand that that most gracious quality of all that adorns the age of childhood — the quality of reverence — is fast fading from our schools and households; that the oldtime respect for father and mother is diminished, and grown rarer and more uncertain.”

—  Felix Adler

Founding Address (1876)

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German American professor of political and social ethics, r… 1851–1933

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