There is a
class of persons to whom by all
spiritual affinity I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison, if
need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college
of fools; the building
of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; — though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold,» is what Emerson would say, Brigitte.
The
class outlines include religion (often based in Bible study), morality (frequently centered in Victorian virtues) and social problems (heavily laced with metaphysical views
of Indian cultural history) These topics are being woven into a new mix which includes a dedication to an interfaith sense
of the urgent
need to reconstruct the
spiritual and moral values
of the nation.