Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.
