Note 101 — Chapter IX · RELIGIOUS FELLOWSHIP AS THE CULMINATING SOCIAL INSTITUTION
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In certain Ethical Societies abroad, the fear of encouraging the rise of a new clericalism led to the plan of drawing for ethical teachers on professors of universities, and others engaged in various lines of practical activity. These persons could of necessity give only the leavings of their time and thought to the complex questions which they undertook to discuss; and the experiment, as might have been foreseen, proved disastrous.