On the Religious Frontier: From an Outpost of Ethical Religion (Signed)
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1931.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Signed by the author on the first free endpaper on 12 Nov, '39.
The author seeks to offer a path to a religion of ethical fellowship for those for whom orthodox religion is too restrictive. The destination is a "new simplified type of religion which exacts no conformities of creed, is hospitable to new knowledge, fronts the challenges and perplexities of the life of to-day in all their concreteness, and allows for fluctuating diversities of individual conviction."
Percival Chubb (1860-1959) was one of the founding members of the Fabian Society (1884) which came out of the British Ethical and humanist movements and advocated for social justice and liberal reforms including universal healthcare and abolition of the peerage. In 1886, he joined the Ethics Society and, from 1897-1910, served as co-leader of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, founded by Felix Adler in 1877. This book was written in 1931 under the auspices of the Ethical Society of St. Louis, still in existence today.
Item #9019025-1/4 x 7-5/8", maroon cloth, viii, 148pp.
Fading to spine, light wear to edges, tight, square, very good.
Price: $30.00