 | American Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge - Education - 1837 - 118 pages
...religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? and let us with caution indulge the supposition that...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. " It is substantially... | |
 | Lyman Matthews - Congregational churches - 1837 - 410 pages
...indispensable supports. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion; — reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail, in exclusion... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1837 - 246 pages
...religious obligations DESERT the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. What ever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason... | |
 | George Washington - 1838 - 114 pages
...religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. DOCUMENTS CONNECTED... | |
 | Peter Wallace Gallaudet - Education - 1838 - 36 pages
...and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that...structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." Some of the advantages... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 468 pages
...Regarding government's view of morality, Washington's Farewell Address in 1796 stated the consensus: "It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government." For this reason, speech or conduct that tends to injure the public morals was subject to 66 Constitution... | |
 | Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - History - 2004 - 340 pages
...habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable supports. . . . And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion." 69 (Historian Fred Hood has even written that an "amazing similarity" of language between Hamilton's... | |
 | E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - Religion - 2004 - 260 pages
...does not depend on religion, Washington argues, this is not the case for the morality of the nation: "And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion." In the end, while it is often thought that the separation of church and state marks the divorce of... | |
 | F. Forrester Church - History - 2004 - 182 pages
...can be separated from religion," gently admitting instead that the opposite might possibly be true: "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion." On balance, however, 113 Washington's "Farewell Address" expresses his personal hopes and concerns... | |
 | Anson R. Nash, Jr. - Religion - 2004 - 326 pages
...Good, better, best, Never let it rest, Until the good gets better And the better gets best. 169.1 1. And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion... | |
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And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national... 
