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Show hold j;(kk1 for all eases. lieslrable, 1" deft', were it that the moral evils of the pre. out day political corruption, hnslrifr.s chicanery, "whit Klavory" and cam hi inc. to mention only a few of them were relocated to the company com-pany of rannlbalkoii and the nutc-da-tc. Hut before that can he, the nia- , terlal foundation therefor. the assured as-sured comfort and well-being of all, J without resort t' ways that arc devious de-vious and tricks that are queer, must first he laid. To attempt to make men honeHt without first giving them the chance to he honest. Is standing sociology on its head. The only movement which can provide pro-vide man with the material basis for robust uprkhteousne,n, aud thus hold sociology solidly on Its feel, is Snciallsni Sn-ciallsni within Its halls the Kthlcil Culture society has s-t Its fare, with the declaration that It "Is not and will not he the channel of any particular particu-lar social or pidMicul propaganda.' An attitude, iu muMer how carefully assumed. as-sumed. i. "non-put tUaiii-hlp'' towards progress is an actual attitude of hos-tilltv hos-tilltv against progress. The Lthlcal Culturlsis. who aspire to "awaken the l.esi in mankind' without giving that best something to feed on Is like the poultryman who would attempt I to ralso chickens by first smashing the eggs. People. People. THE ETHICAL CULTURE DEDICATION. DEDICA-TION. With appropriate ceremonies extending ex-tending over two days, the Imposing Ethical Culture edifice on Central Park West has been dedicated to its purposes. What those purposes are. Is i-.t summed up in tr. Felix Ad-ler's Ad-ler's own words-. "To realize In our own life the greatness, the solemnity, the. eacrednees of the moral law to contribute ourselves to the awaken lnr of the best in mankind." To persons o largely occupied with ethical movements and ethical hls- l tory as are Dr. Adler and bis "associates, "asso-ciates, the Hociolosic law underlying all ethical advance should be no sealed seal-ed book. Warfare and rapine, subj"c-tlon subj"c-tlon to an oppressive and absentee autocracy, the holding of one's fellow fel-low man In bonds of chattel slavery, have no doubt beeu always Inherently Inherent-ly vicious and abhorrent. Not, however, how-ever, until the watiderimr nomad ttlbes of Israel came Into possession of the rich and fertile lands of Canaan, Can-aan, and learned tu arts of agii-culture; agii-culture; not until the American colonies col-onies hnd reached a hulllclent n inner- ) leal and industrial development tu ! feel confident lu their ability to "go it alone"; not until the Northern employing em-ploying class had been enabled, by the necessity of Blave labor, did sail- i gulnary plunder, oppression by Eng land, and NcgTO bondage become monstrous mon-strous in the eyes of the respective generations practising them" Xot. In other words, until material conditions have paved the way by rendering po. rible abandonment of an Iniqui'ous social procedure, can society at largo or any great percentage of it, recognize rec-ognize the evil that stares It in the 1 face, and set intelligently about tho task of putting It down. The law once ascertained, it must |