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...fourth of the William Belden Noble lectures last night in Brooks House. The special subject was "Ethics and Religion." Professor Palmer began by showing that in religion we have a field far more closely allied to ethics than either Law or the Fine Arts. There are, of course, certain lines of difference between them; but the first aim should be to establish their similarity...
...great thinkers, irrespective of sect or creed. Not Christ alone, but such philosophers as Spinoza have spoken of love as the supreme quality in man, and the thought has been repeated by those of later times. Now, this is quite as true in ethics as in religion; and certain religious postulates are essential to completeness in the purely ethical field...
Many writers on trusts think that the worst evil connected with them is their introduction of corruption into politics, but it is questionable whether trusts do this any more than corporations such as gas companies and railroads. The real evil lies in the legislative system, certain members of which introduce bills injurious alike to the trusts and the public, simply for the purpose of being bought...
During the last few years experience shows that nearly all the large combinations have been disposed to deal fairly with their employees. Though in several cases the number of employees of certain classes, such as the commercial travellers, has been lessened, the wages of nearly all classes have been increased in no slight degree...
...these combinations is frequently an important one. Generally a new corporation must raise money by selling stock, and here the banks lend their aid by "underwriting the stock." A bank may make an agreement with the corporation to take at 50 per cent. all stock not sold by a certain time at a price above 50 per cent...