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Published by The American Ethical Union, New York, NY, 1928
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 1928 issue (Vol. XIV No. 5) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover; previously, but lightly, folded; short narrow brown waterstain to right page edges (to blank margins only). Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: The Two Peace Movements by John A. Hobson; Ethical Societies and the Child by Percival Chubb; The Anatomy of Cynicism by Charles Lawson; The Crisis in the English Church by Harry Snell; A Faith on Trial by A. S. Toms (on George Meredith); An English Tradition by C. Delisle Burns; "The Crucified Jew" by Felix Adler (a book review of the same title by Max Hunterberg); Finding the Right Job by Jerome Silverberg; Mankind in the School ("Address by Professor Harold Rugg"). J.A. (John) Hobson (1858-1940) was an English economist and social scientist; C. (Cecil) Delisle Burns (1879-1942) was a leading English atheist, secularist writer and lecturer.
Published by The American Ethical Union, New York, NY, 1925
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 1925 issue (Vol. XI No. 8) of "The Standard: Published to Promote Ethical Thinking & to Encourage Better Ways of Living" edited by Felix Adler and published by The American Ethical Union out of New York City. A stapled magazine measuring 6-3/4" by 10" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers. Small, round, faint clear-embossed stamp of the Colorado College Library to front cover. Containing articles and Ethical Movement news, the articles are: What Is Americanism? (Part I) by William M. Salter; Shakespeare and the Truck Drivers by John Lovejoy Elliott; America Revisited by J.A. Hobson; The Opposition to the Child Labor Amendment by Felix Adler; Teachers' Associations in the British Empire by Ruth G. Hardy. William M. (Mackintire) Salter (1853-1931) founded the Ethical Culture Society in Chicago and was author of the 1917 classic "Nietzsche the Thinker"; John Lovejoy Elliott (1868-1942) was highly involved in the Settlement Movement and founder of the Hudson Guild Settlement House in 1897.