“The churches … have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.”
Agnes E. Meyer
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“Our rural village life was a purifying, uplifting influence that fortified us against the later impacts of urbanization; Church and State, because they were separated and friendly, had spiritual and ethical standards that were mutually enriching; freedom and discipline, individualism and collectivity, nature and nurture in their interaction promised an ever stronger democracy. I have no illusions that those simpler, happier days can be resurrected.”
Agnes E. Meyer
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“… the separation of church and state means separation–absolute and eternal–or it means nothing.”
Agnes E. Meyer
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“… dependence upon material possessions inevitably results in the destruction of human character.”
Agnes E. Meyer
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“… the mass migrations now habitual in our nation are disastrous to the family and to the formation of individual character. It is impossible to create a stable society if something like a third of our people are constantly moving about. We cannot grow fine human beings, any more than we can grow fine trees, if they are constantly torn up by the roots and transplanted …”
Agnes E. Meyer
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“As our disorderly, competitive technological society is piling up its victims and constantly developing new problems of maladjustment, we must use our scientific knowledge to determine the cause and prevention of suffering rather than putting all our emphasis on its alleviation …”
Agnes E. Meyer
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“Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.”
Agnes E. Meyer
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“… the lesson to be learned from China’s Confucianism could never be more significant for us than it is now. Its ethical aspectsare a reminder which our Christian civilization needs if we are not to stand before the world as hypocrites who preach love while practicing the bitterest hatreds toward more rival orthodoxies and toward peoples whose skins are of a different hue. We shall, in fact, dig the gave of Western civilization unless we implement the faith that Confucianism and democracy have in common, namely, that ethics has its roots in man’s relation to the universe, that morality comes into being through honest, clear-cut human relationships and cannot endure unless it is reflected in the patterns of daily life.”
Agnes E. Meyer
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“The world is not merely the world. It is our world. It is not merely an industrial world. It is, above all things, a human world.”
Agnes E. Meyer
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