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...considering how funds can be raised with the least interference with the moral and material development of the citizen, we must eliminate the objectionable methods and reduce the problem to its simplest form. The first principle is that all inquisitorial and arbitrary methods are abhorrent to the people and inconsistent with the maintenance of honor and freedom, for they foster selfishness and encourage perjury. The second principle is that no power should tax property out of its own territory and out of reach of its protection. Some property in this country is taxed both where it is and where...
Ethics deal with ideal conceptions; not with what men actually do, but with what they should do, and much as we may regret it, moral ideas do not depend on fact but on what should be. So the first service of ethics is the enlarging of our philosophy. Ethics cannot take the place of all philosophy but it can endow us with the great gift of moral truth...
...come to think that beneficence exists behind all wrong, but how differently religion shapes itself when ethics comes to its help, showing right and wrong in their true colors, and impressing upon men their duty in putting down evil. With a religion of this kind life becomes serious and moral indifference comes to an end. To the ethical believer God is the strengthener of the conscience not the soother...
...important the personal basis and opinions of the narrator are. Tingard says no class of writers have done more to injure history than philosophical writers. What is called comparative history is as far as we can go in philosophical history. The historian may be sagaciously profound without being philosophical. Moral philosophy may draw facts from history but history is no scheme of moral philosophy...
...money rewards of teaching are small. Its greatest and most delightful return is the many deep and lasting friendships formed between the teacher and his pupils. The teacher should remember his relation to his pupils, that on his side there are strong moral obligations which he must observe. He should try to be what he would have his pupils...