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REPORT

ON

MORAL INSTRUCTION

Dedicated,

IN DEEP RECOGNITION

OF THEIR INVALUABLE SOCIAL SERVICES,

TO THE

TEACHERS OF ALL COUNTRIES

REPORT

ON

MORAL INSTRUCTION

(GENERAL AND DENOMINATIONAL)

AND ON

MORAL TRAINING

IN THE SCHOOLS OF

AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, the BRITISH EMPIRE, CHINA, DENMARK,
FRANCE, GERMANY, HOLLAND, HUNGARY, ITALY, JAPAN,
NORWAY, PORTUGAL, SPAIN, SWEDEN, SWITZER-

LAND, TURKEY, and the UNITED STATES

WITH TWO INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS AND AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF ABOUT 750 VOLUMES

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SOME PRONOUNCEMENTS

FROM THE BIBLE: "He that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law" (Epistle to the Romans). "All things therefore

whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets " (Matthew). "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" (John).

AUSTRIA: "Pagans, too, are bound to keep the Ten Commandments, so far as they know them; and if they do this, they can be saved" (Bobelka, "Religionsunterricht," a Catholic manual).

ENGLAND: "All education must be moral first; intellectual secondarily" (Ruskin). “I do not wish to underrate the importance of teaching children the elements of morality. I attach considerable importance to such teaching......I am persuaded that, rationally conducted, it can be made a very live and a very real thing. I do not think for a moment that morality can only be taught on a theological basis. I am quite sure that it can be taught, with spirit and with force, apart from such basis......There are other sanctions besides the religious sanction; the social sanction is one of them, and the moral sanction is another" (Augustine Birrell, Minister of Education).

FRANCE: "Amidst the multiplicity of systems, the variety of civilisations, the incessant transformations in society, morality forms an uninterrupted chain which binds the world of the ancients to the modern world, old Europe to the new Continents, pagan cults to the Christian religion, centuries of barbarism to the most advanced culture; it proves and constitutes the nobility of the race" (Jules Steeg). "As the majority makes the law, it is, above all, necessary that the majority be morally sane and sufficiently enlightened" (H. Marion).

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