Felix Adler (Society for Ethical Culture)

Felix Adler (August 13, 1851–April 24, 1933) was a Jewish rationalist intellectual, popular lecturer, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement.

Chronology

He was born in Alzey, Germany, the son of a rabbi, Samuel Adler. The family immigrated to the United States from Germany when Felix was six years of age on the occasion of his father's receiving an appointment as head rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in New York.

Felix Adler graduated from Columbia University in 1870 and moved to Germany where he received a doctorate from Heidelberg University. Starting in 1874 he spent two years at Cornell University in the Department of History as Professor of Oriental Languages and Hebrew before his "dangerous attitude" caused him to leave.

He returned to New York and preached some sermons at the Temple Emanu-El in New York City where his father was still the head rabbi. He was noted for omitting reference to God in any of his Sermons, an unorthodox approach which made him suspect by many in the New York Jewish community and ended any thought of him succeeding his father.

Then, at the age of twenty-four, Adler founded the New York Society for Ethical Culture in 1876. His sermon on May 15, 1876 is considered to be the date on which the religion he called Ethical Culture was established. His lectures before this society on Sundays in New York were well known and attended, and were routinely reported on in the New York Times. Adler's belief in deed rather than creed led his society to foster two innovative projects. In 1877 the NYSEC sponsored Visiting Nursing, where nurses, and doctors if necessary, visited the homebound sick in poor districts. This service was eventually incorporated into the New York City health system. A year later, in 1878, a Free Kindergarten was established as a tuition-free school for working people's children. It evolved over time into the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.

In 1902 Adler was given the chair of political and social ethics at Columbia University, which he held until his death in 1933.

Well known as a lecturer and writer, Adler served as rector for the Ethical Culture School until his death in 1933. Throughout his life he always looked beyond the immediate concerns of family, labor, and race to the long-term challenge of reconstructing institutions like schools and government to promote greater justice in human relations. Within Adler's ethical philosophy, cooperation rather than competition remained the higher social value.

Adler became the founding chairman of the National Child Labor Committee in 1904. Lewis Hine became the committee's photographer in 1908.

In 1917 Adler served on the Civil Liberties Bureau, which later became the American Civil Liberties Bureau and then the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

In 1928 Adler became president of the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association.

Adler served on the first Executive Board of the National Urban League.

Tenement house reform

As a member of the New York State Tenement House Commission, Adler was concerned not only with overcrowding but also by the increase in contagious disease caused by overcrowding. Though not a proponent of free public housing, Adler spoke out about tenant reform and the rents which he considered exorbitant. Jacob Riis wrote that Adler had "clear incisive questions that went through all subterfuges to the root of things."

In 1885 Adler and others created the Tenement House Building Company in order to build "model" tenements that rented for $8–$14/month. By 1887 six model buildings had actually been erected on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for the sum of $155,000. Even though critics favored restrictive legislation for improving tenement living, the model tenement was a progressive step forward.

American foreign policy

By the late 1890s, with the increase in international conflicts, Adler switched his concern from domestic issues to the question of American foreign policy. While some contemporaries viewed the 1898 Spanish American War as an act to liberate the Cubans from Spanish rule, others perceived the U.S. victories in the Caribbean and the Philippines as the beginning of an expansionist empire. Adler at first supported the war but later expressed anxiety about American sovereignty over the Philippines and Puerto Rico, concluding that an imperialistic rather than a democratic goal was guiding U.S. foreign policy. Ethical Culture affirms "the supreme worth of the person" and Adler superimposed this tenet on international relations, believing that no single group could lay claim to superior institutions and lifestyle.

Unlike many of his contemporaries during World War I, Adler didn't feel that the defeat of Germany alone would make the world safe for democracy. Peace could only be achieved, he thought, if the representative democratic governments remained non-imperialistic and if the arms race was curbed. As a result, Adler opposed the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations. As an alternative, Adler proposed a "Parliament of Parliaments" elected by the legislative bodies of the different nations and filled with different classes of people, rather than special interests, so that common and not national differences would prevail.

Philosophy

While the Ethical Culture movement which Adler founded was open to people of diverse beliefs, Adler himself developed and promoted his own vision of an essentially Kantian moral philosophy which prized public work and the use of reason to develop ultimate ethical standards. Adler published such works as "Creed and Deed" (1878), "Moral Instruction of Children" (1892), "Life and Destiny" (1905), "The Religion of Duty" (1906), "Essentials of Spirituality" (1908), "An Ethical Philosophy of Life" (1918), "The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal" (1925), and "Our Part in this World." He made use of the ideas from the religion to which he was born, and the philosophies of Kant and Ralph Waldo Emerson, mixed with certain socialistic ideas of his time. He believed that the concept of a personal god was unnecessary and that the human personality is the central force of religion, that different people's interpretations of religions were to be respected as religious things in themselves.

References

* "Felix Adler" - http://www.transcendentalists.com/felix_adler.htm
* "Who Was Felix Adler?" by Sue Berkon, Ethical Culture Fieldston School -- http://www.ecfs.org/125/felixadler.asp
* "Felix Adler," Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture - http://www.bsec.org/reference/ethicalculture/history/felix.html
* "Ethical Culture Focuses on Creating a Humane World" by Lauren Sloan, Austin Area Interreligious Ministries -- http://www.aaimaustin.org/clergy/EthicalCulture.htm
* "Ethics To Live By: Ideas and Their Action Consequences" - by John Hoad - http://hoad.ethicalmanifold.net/archives/000041.html
* [http://hfsd.info/overviewhistory.html Humanist History: An Overview] - cites Adler as "The First Humanist in America" and provides additional details.
* Answers.com on [http://www.answers.com/topic/ethical-culture-society-for Society for Ethical Culture]
* Kraut, Benny. "From Reform Judaism to Ethical Culture: The Religious Evolution of Felix Adler". Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1979.
* Bridges, Horace J., ed. [http://books.google.com/books?id=QlMtYoeUsi0C&dq=fiftieth+anniversary+of+the+ethical+movement&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=5gnk7LnTAB&sig=NN_HvFjdKhPAPunqpVwOCfSffAA#PPP1,M1 "Aspects of Ethical Religion: Essays in Honor of Felix Adler on the Fiftieth Anniversary of his founding of the Ethical Movement"] , 1926.
*This article incorporates text from 1914 "The New Student's Reference Work," a document now in the public domain.

Organizations

* [http://www.aeu.org The American Ethical Union ] at www.aeu.org is the website of the American Ethical Union, umbrella organization for the various Ethical Societies in the United States.
* [http://www.ecfs.org Ethical Culture Fieldston School ] at www.ecfs.org is the website of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School that contains much information, some of which is incorporated into this article.
* [http://www.nysec.org Home: New York Society for Ethical Culture ] at www.nysec.org is the website of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, the original Ethical Society founded by Adler.
* [http://www.ethicalhuman.org Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago ] at www.ethicalhuman.org is the website of the Ethical Humanist Society of Chicago, established 1882 and the second Ethical Society founded by Adler.

Adler's Words

Quotes

* [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Felix_Adler Felix Adler - Wikiquote ] at en.wikiquote.org
* [http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/felix_adler.html Felix Adler Quotes ] at www.brainyquote.com
* [http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/felix_adler/ Felix Adler quotes ] at en.thinkexist.com

Addresses

* [http://aeu.org/library/display_article.php?article_id=1 Founding Address] , Felix Adler, May 15, 1876, New York Society for Ethical Culture
* [http://www.jjnet.com/archives/documents/adleroneaster.htm The Ethical Significance of Easter] , 1915.
* [http://aeu.org/library/display_article.php?article_id=12 Some Characteristics of the American Ethical Movement] , An address delivered in South Place Chapel, London, June 7, 1925
* [http://aeu.org/library/display_article.php?article_id=13 On the Occasion of the Fifty-Fifth Anniversary of the founding of the Ethical Movement] , May 10, 1931.

Reports in New York Times

The New York Times archives contain [http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=Felix+Adler&srchst=p&d=&o=&v=&c=&sort=closest&n=10&dp=0&daterange=period&year1=1851&mon1=09&day1=18&year2=1980&mon2=12&day2=31&frow=10 many] reports on addresses given by Felix Adler, as well as numerous letters and articles by or about Adler.

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title=ADVANCED THINKERS.; FELIX ADLER'S LECTURE TO THE SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL CULTURE.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01E3D61F31EE3ABC4852DFB366838B699FDE
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1880.
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title=WOMAN SLAVERY.; SOME TERRIBLE PICTURES DRAWN BY PROF. FELIX ADLER.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9401E1DD123BE033A25754C2A9649C94639FD7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1882.
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title=FELIX ADLER PROTESTS.
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accessdate=2008-08-09, letter, 1888.
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title=MANY BOOKS, ONE LITERATURE; THE BIBLE GOOD AS A TEACHER, SAYS PROF. FELIX ADLER. How the Ethical View Differs from the Orthodox, the Christian, the Jewish, and the Radical -- Truth, but Not All Truth, in the Sacred Book, He Says -- Opposing Accounts in Different Books -- Discrepancies Found in a Single Chapter.
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accessdate=2008-08-09 address, 1893 - remarks on Adler's popularity.
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title=JESUS CHRIST AS A TEACHER; LESSONS DRAWN FROM HIS LIFE BY PROF. FELIX ADLER. The Ethics of His Teachings a Deep Well Which Has Been Drawn from for Centuries Without Exhausting It -- His Nature as Indicated by His Words -- His Life Furnishes for Every One an Inspiration of What a Life Should Be.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A02E1DB173EEF33A25752C1A9649D94629ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1893.
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title=WOMAN'S BENIGN INFLUENCE; ELEMENTARY JUSTICE THAT ALL CAREERS BE OPEN TO HER. Prof. Felix Adler Says that She Should Have Full Sway in the Exercise of Her Talents -- To Those Who Are Educated and Competent the Right of Suffrage Should Be Extended -- The Place of Woman in History and in the World of To-day.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B02E1D8173EEF33A25751C0A9629C94659ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1894.
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title=THE QUESTION OF BETTER TENEMENTS; Felix Adler Explains His Suggestion for Municipal Assistance.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9506E6DD1231E033A25750C0A9649D94659ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, 1894.
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title=ERRORS OF SOCIALISM; Prof. Felix Adler Gives Reasons for Calling It Impracticable. INDIVIDUALITY IS CHECKED, HE SAYS The Apathy of the Prosperous Toward the Poor, He Declares, Has Caused Socialistic Creeds.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0CE0DA123DE433A2575BC2A9679C94649ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1895.
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title="HOLLOW AT THE CORE"; Wrong Will Perish of Itself, Said Prof. Felix Adler. LECTURE ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS His Sunday Discourse at Carnegie Hall Reveals the Ways of Health and Peace for the Young.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A06E1DA133DE433A25751C2A9629C94649ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1895.
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title=ETHICS FOR THE SCHOOLS; Felix Adler Says that Aimiessness Is the Bane of Our Educational System. NO COMPROMISE OF CREEDS. Formation of Character Prevented by the Absence of Religious Teaching, and the Purpose of All Education Defeated.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D07E7D6153CE433A2575AC2A9659C94669ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1895.
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title=HOUSES FOR THE POOR; Comments on Prof. Felix Adler's Remarks on Past Work. A PROMISE OF A PRACTICAL SCHEME Dr. W.H. Tolman Thinks New-York May Soon Distance the world in Providing Cheap Homes.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A06E4D71231E033A25755C0A9659C94679ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, 1896.
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title=THE WOMAN IN RELIGION; PROF. FELIX ADLER SAYS HER SPHERE WAS ONCE LARGER. It Should Be Extended Now -- Women Are Naturally Revealers, with Deeper Insight into the Mysteries -- Especial Fields Should Be Hers.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9903E2D8153CE433A25752C0A9649C94669ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1897.
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title=TO UNITE TWO RELIGIONS; Prof. Felix Adler, at Carnegie Music Hall, Advocates the Union of Jew and Gentile. ETHICAL CULTURE A MEDIUM National Prerogative of Judaism and the Principle of the Divinity of Christ in the Christian Faith a Bar to Reunion -- The Idea of Brotherhood.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0DE5DC153DE633A25755C0A9649D94669ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1897.
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title=POSTULATES OF RELIGION; Prof. Felix Adler Would Discard Shells of Doctrine and Keep the Moral Truths. BASIS OF ALL IS CONSCIENCE. The Necessity of the Belief in Free Will -- Divergence of the Religion of To-day from That of the Past -- The Perfect Society.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C01E0D71339E433A2575BC0A9659C94669ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1897.
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title=INFLUENCES OF RELIGION; Prof. Felix Adler's Address Before the Society for Ethical Culture at Carnegie Hall. DEVELOPMENT OF MORALITY Religious Inspiration in the Fine Arts -- The Force That Made for Political Unity -- Lessons of the Last Election.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A02EFD81330E333A25756C1A9679D94669ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1897.
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title=SOURCE OF THE UNIVERSE; Prof. Felix Adler Lectures at Carnegie Music Hall on "The Name of God." ATTRIBUTES OF THE DEITY Infinite Power, Knowledge, and Justice Held to be Incomprehensible to the Mind of Man -- The Word "God" a Metaphor.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C07EEDD1431E733A2575BC0A9679D94669ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1897.
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title=THE RESOURCES OF SILENCE; Prof. Felix Adler, at Carnegie Music Hall, Gives Instances Where Speech Is Inadequate. MANY THINGS INEXPRESSIBLE Emotions of Richest Spiritual Joy and Profoundest Sorrow Impossible of Depiction by Words -- Impulse the Enemy of Morality.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9801E5D61039E433A25754C0A9649C94699ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1898.
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title=FELIX ADLER TO MOTHERS.; He Tells How to Judge What Children Should Read and Outlines a Course.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B01E7D71638E433A25756C1A9659C94699ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1898.
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title=A CRITERION OF PROGRESS; Prof. Felix Adler Addresses the Society for Ethical Culture on Moral Advancement. THE RIGHT INWARD ATTITUDE Persistence of War Passion and Present Economical and Political Conditions Signs that Mankind Lingers on Lower Levels of Civilization.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E3DF1139E433A25752C2A9659C94699ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, 1898.
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title=FUNCTIONS OF A LEADER; Prof. Felix Adler at Carnegie Hall Declares a New Type Is Needed. THE DUTY OF PUBLIC SERVANTS Difference Between Serving the Public Interest and Being a Tool in the Hands of the People -- Theory of False Equality.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B06E6DF133CE433A2575BC2A9659C94699ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1898.
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title=MEANING OF TEMPERANCE; Prof. Felix Adler Explains Its Relation to the Spiritual Life, at Carnegie Music Hall. THE DUAL NATURE IN MAN The Senses Properly Exercised Should Be Regarded as the Instruments by Which the Moral Aims of Life May Be Attained.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9807E3D9123CE433A25753C1A9679C94699ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09,address, 1898.
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title=THE RELIGION OF ACTION; Prof. Felix Adler Talks to the Ethical Society at Carnegie Hall. HIS WINTER'S WORK BEGUN In Some Respects, He Says, This Age Is Not a Good Time for a New Religious or Ethical Movement.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990DE7D6103CE433A25754C1A9669D94699ED7CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1898.
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title=DR. FELIX ADLER ON RELIGION OF BUDDHA; One of His Series Before the Ethical Culture Society.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D06EFDE103DEE32A25757C0A9659C946097D6CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1901.
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title=$10,000 FUND PRESENTED TO DR. FELIX ADLER; Ethical Culture Society Proves Its Gratitude for His Work. Money the Nucleus of a Larger Endowment for Education for Talented Beneficiaries.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9905E3DD1139E733A25756C0A9639C946097D6CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, 1901.
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title=DR. FELIX ADLER'S CORRECTION.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9406E1DC1E39EF32A25756C0A9679D946097D6CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, letter, 1901.
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title=SEPARATION THE CURE FOR MATRIMONIAL WOE; Felix Adler Opposes a Divorce Which Is Permanent. LEAVE CHANCE FOR REUNION Give Tired Couples a Respite, They'll Reunite with Renewed Affection, He Says.
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9407E1D9163DE733A25755C1A9679C946497D6CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, address, 1905.
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title=Ethical Culture Movement Forty Years Old; Dr. Felix Adler, Head of New York Society, Says That It Has Been Kept Alive by Need of the People for New Moral Light
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work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9502EEDC1439E233A25757C1A9639C946796D6CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, article by Adler, 1916.
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title=ETHICAL SOCIETY IS FORTY YEARS OLD; Leaders from Other Cities Assemble Here for Anniversary Celebration. PRAISE DR. FELIX ADLER A Sculpture, "The Friendship Group." Unveiled at First Session of Nine Days' Festival.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B00E1D8163BE633A25756C1A9639C946796D6CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, article, 1916.
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title=Dr. Felix Adler's Advice on How to Look at the Election.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E4D8143BE633A25750C0A9679D946796D6CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, NY Times, 1916.
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title=DR. FELIX ADLER CRITICISED.; Baptist Ministers Attack His Statement That There Is No Hell.
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url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E0D6163AE433A25756C1A9679C946696D6CF
accessdate=2008-08-09, 1917.
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title=FELIX ADLER'S SCHOOL HONORS HIS MEMORY; Ethical Culture Classes Pay Tribute to the Founder on Anniversary of Death.
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work=New York Times
url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00713FD3D5B177A93C5AB178FD85F418385F9
accessdate=2008-08-09, 1935.
* and [http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=Felix+Adler&srchst=p&d=&o=&v=&c=&sort=closest&n=10&dp=0&daterange=period&year1=1851&mon1=09&day1=18&year2=1980&mon2=12&day2=31&frow=10 many more letters, articles, and addresses]

Books

* Adler, Felix. [http://books.google.com/books?id=JWgAAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=felix+adler&ei=K3c-R97hEYa67gKlmqCFBw "Creed and Deed: A Series of Discourses"] , 243 pages, 1880.
* Adler, Felix. [http://books.google.com/books?id=59IZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=felix+adler&ei=K3c-R97hEYa67gKlmqCFBw "Life and Destiny"] , 141 pages, 1903.
* Adler, Felix. [http://books.google.com/books?id=8WEAAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=felix+adler&ei=K3c-R97hEYa67gKlmqCFBw "The Religion of Duty"] , 201 pages, 1905.:* [http://aeu.org/library/display_article.php?article_id=11 Chapter Ten: The Essential Difference Between Ethical Societies and The Churches]
* Adler, Felix. [http://books.google.com/books?id=9hsEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=felix+adler&ei=K3c-R97hEYa67gKlmqCFBw "Marriage and Divorce"] , 58 pages, 1905.
* Adler, Felix. [http://books.google.com/books?id=FzUXAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=felix+adler&ei=K3c-R97hEYa67gKlmqCFBw "The Moral Instruction of Children"] , 278 pages, 1908.
* Adler, Felix. [http://books.google.com/books?id=D7h3MFRoljsC&dq=essentials+of+spirituality&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Z92d6tQ6uF&sig=dnK7v3_OUC-nauQDK72oXNQAXQY "The Essentials of Spirituality"] , 92 pages, 1908.
* Adler, Felix. [http://books.google.com/books?id=mqsZAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=felix+adler&ei=K3c-R97hEYa67gKlmqCFBw "An Ethical Philosophy of Life: Presented in Its Main Outlines"] , 380 pages, 1918.:* [http://www.jjnet.com/archives/documents/adleron.htm Chapter III: Emerson] - Adler on Emerson and Emerson's influence on his own development:* [http://www.jjnet.com/archives/documents/ethical.htm Chapter V: The Ideal of the Whole and the Ethical Manifold] :* [http://www.jjnet.com/archives/documents/supreme.htm Chapter VII: The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thy Self] :* [http://www.jjnet.com/archives/documents/religiou.htm Chapter IX: Religious Fellowship as the Culminating Social Institution]
* Adler, Felix. [http://www.archive.org/details/incompatibilityi029546mbp Incompatibility In Marriage] , 105 pages, 1920.
* Adler, Felix. [http://www.archive.org/details/punishmentofchil00adlerich The punishment of children] , 38 pages, 1922.
* Adler, Felix. "The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal: Hibbert Lectures Delivered in Manchester College, Oxford, May 1923", 218 pages.
* Adler, Felix, and others. "Fiftieth Anniversary of the Ethical Movement (1876-1926)", 1926.
* Adler, Felix (Friess, Horace, ed.). "Our Part in This World", 1946.
* Remsen, Daniel S., [http://www.archive.org/details/postmortemuseofw00remsrich Post-mortem use of wealth, including a consideration of ante-mortem gifts] , 1911.:* Section II. Chapter I. Adler, Felix. "Principles Which Should Govern the Making of Bequests for Philanthropic Purposes", p. 89-93.