Excerpt from The Ethical Movement, Its Principles and Aims
The Council of the English Union of Ethical Societies, in May of last year, appointed a Committee to prepare a volume in exposition of the Statement of Principles which is incorporated in its Constitution. This book is the outcome of the Committee's work.
There may be occasion to explain the fact that joint authorship is claimed throughout. The reason is that, before each chapter was written, the four contributors whose names appear on the title-page met and discussed the theme of which it was to treat, and even decided, to a great extent, what specific points should be dealt with in it. Then a draft of the chapter was written by some one of us, and submitted at a later meeting; and, where it was thought advisable, modifications were proposed and adopted. In these conferences we had the assistance of Mr. Gustav Spiller, to whom we are deeply indebted for much valuable help.
The unanimity of opinion among us was for the most part so marked that the question as to who had drafted each chapter became wholly subordinate. The ideas belonged to all of us in common, and even turns of expression often seemed not to have emanated from one more than another of us. This was quite natural, since we had all been working for a number of years as organisers and lecturers in Ethical Societies, and these meetings were by no means the first in which we had helped to beat out what we judged to be the main outlines of the Ethical Movement.
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