The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-11-28
MORAL CODE fop HAWAII.

MURAL IUDE TUX HAWAII.
Advertiser the adoption BY unanimous consent
added Of instruction prescribed by the
public sentiment that without infringing on
the letter the spirit of the constitutional guarantees against @
Of education should be and can
reme emphatic tendencies Of the age not
chahe the leading educators
Hnrdly passes without the foitle expression Of this fact
week in welwrin paper Mr. c. D. NJ williams IN the
Advertiser suggested teaching
of But this gentleman mneed the articles to which he proposed
mby imputatOn the excellent class
citizens of both the work education That in their
exmpify the moral desirable for all
citizens has been disputed and is nub But they are bound
difficulty that prasewoy maintain the
stuiona against the union of church and state strictly pre-
serving religious liberty ppresn bigotry
tna systems have become too purely intellectual
religions compatible with advanced civilization have
aided in the spread of agnostsm atheism and all forms OF hde ha'
o destroy the of moral obligation
is that morality taught all our public schools today
except American education indeed all real education to certain extent
implied taught But this
different thing from the fOrmazed teaching of morality,
integral part of character and an essential element of good citizenship
The experience of Mr. Williams relation the public schools is not
confirmed by the foremost educators the United States their public
primaries
all the intermediate evidence vigorous
o ~ this effect have heo tIiod orl b other da Reniam T5s
Wheeler president the University California became almost mpassOned
When it is assumed that the higher morality proposed
religious training wholly Of by ingenious perver
proposition The word 'region is capable of
religion humanity" Masonry has been
sometimes religion But the in which the diffusion
religion is left individual action under the American
tuton begins exactly where unity ends and means theological doctrines
and ens not harmony with each other and occasionally dcorant and
all American
would object to the distribution of school funds s
introduction of religion thus defined into
national of education That indeed would involve all the consequences
that correspondent has fO and depicted But that
precisely the movement the moral unties in
the development citizenship.
In respect uncoousy that pa
snshp which, especially have disappeared He
denies that there ground which Ges and Jews
Protesnts and Catholics could stand harmony this question Is that
of example, the existence
Intelligence with all the that the fact involves
application
united action without danger of pi The mere perfunctor
individual
existing fails.
action action
secured only by cooperation among the best citizens within and
illustrated moral subjects
be prepared which who bgot fanatic agnoic
object To this further
of the Advertiser gone.
there
uOna which protection of American I'm
In Its distinctive sense But there religion of the nation which simply
applied morality that is the applied morality which all Americans fit for
citizenship AS been repeatedly said and demon
from the Constitution itself and from almost nnumerabe adudcatOns
the United religious establishment
particular theological but it is
and it not atheisc There is point therefore, which the law itself
But within strictly within the limit abundan
room Tor the extension OF morality In the domain OF public educaon SO tina
the appalling involved complete secuzaion
IN modern times the moral training of children on the average neglected
the instruction in the schools should with
citizenship Nothing
goy or nam could logically prevent improvements without risk
danger that broad and free civilization the United States
but throughout the world.
opportunity Hawaii, which,
religious acrbt been either eliminated reduced
ought be prompt and embrace There abundan
time, citizens all
of all formulate
that would be obnoxious legal reasonable objection and tina
would
rapidly approaching colleges schools
themselves or boadminded and competent individuals would take
initaoy steps
before the world with the briliancy of
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