By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists:;? On the whole, by … - Felix Adler

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Felix Adler

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.

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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

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We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.

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