Ethical Addresses - Series Five

 Series Five (published 1899) was added to the Bibliography more than a year ago, but I had to set further work on the project aside while I undertook other duties on behalf of the American Ethical Union.  I am grateful, at last, to return to this much loved project and my hope to compile a Bibliography fit to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Ethical Culture on May 15, 2026.

The fifth volume of Ethical Addresses adds one new writer to the table of contents (Percival Chubb) and includes several lengthy studies that extend for two or three articles.  These include Adler's work on the discipline of children, Salter on the value of the Bible, and Sheldon on the plan of the Sunday School.  Individual contributions come from Adler ("The Ethical Culture Society as the Meeting Ground of Jew and Gentile"), Salter ("A New Nation and a New Duty"), as well as Chubb ("The Conservative and Liberal Aspects of Ethical Religion").

Chubb was a founding member of the Fabian Society in London and soon after a member of the Ethical Society there.  When he immigrated to the US, he eventually became an associate Leader for the New York Society for Ethical Culture (1897 - 1910) and then senior Leader for the Ethical Culture Society of St. Louis (1911 - 1932).  After his retirement, he served as President of the American Ethical Union from 1934 to 1939.  

Looking for a copyright-free picture of Chubb, I did run across this blog post about his early efforts to reform the "comic supplement," about which, he opined, there is "no single influence that is poisoning America at the fountain sources more than the so-called comic supplement.” [“The ‘Comic’ Nuisance,” The Outlook, March 6, 1909, pp. 527-529.  Authorship is not attributed in the journal itself, so it is yet to be confirmed.]

Adler's work, The Punishment of Children, was published by Abingdon Press (New York, 1920) as one volume.  It is available as a reprint from multiple publishers through Amazon.  Scanned copies are available for free download from Project Gutenberg as well as from Google Books.