Some Characteristics of the
American Ethical Movement

Felix Adler

From "Some Characteristics of the American Ethical Movement"
(An address delivered in South Place Chapel, London, June 7,1925)

Felix Adler (1851-1933) was the founder of the Ethical Culture Movement, organizing the New York Society for Ethical Culture on May 15, 1876. He was active in many social service and civic reform enterprises, was for many years Professor of Political and Social Ethics in Columbia University, and was the author of Moral Instruction of Children (1895), An Ethical Philosophy of Life (1918), and The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal (1923 Hibbert Lectures).