 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...  The North American Review - Page 2601896Full view - About this book
 | Kenneth C. Davis - 2009 - 717 pages
...Address expressed his belief that religion and morality were "pillars of human happiness," then adding, "Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion." Perhaps more significantly, the nominally Episcopalian Washington was also a Freemason, along with... | |
 | Nasser Behnegar - 2005 - 235 pages
...shown the soundness of George Washington's warning against the abolition of or neglect of religion: "[L]et 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... | |
 | Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark David Hall, Jeffry H. Morrison - 2004 - 340 pages
...his Farewell Address, Washington said, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indispensable...that morality can be maintained without religion." 69 (Historian Fred Hood has even written that an "amazing similarity" of language between Hamilton's... | |
 | Mary Mostert - 2004 - 230 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 morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - 2004 - 178 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 morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason... | |
 | E.J. Dionne, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz - 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... | |
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JohnWilliam McMullen - 2004 - 92 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 morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason... | |
 | Scott Hahn - 2005 - 242 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 morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason... | |
 | F. Forrester Church - 2004 - 182 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 morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason... | |
 | William F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 pages
...different professional perspective but with equal cogency, George Washington noted in his Farewell Address, "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... | |
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