[1] Leo Jacobs, Three Types of Practical Ethical Movements of the Past Half Century (1922), which compares Ethical Culture (chap. 111), a "Pure Ethical Movement," with two other movements: (a) The "Religious Ethical Movement" of F. D. Maurice and Charles Kingsley's Christian Socialism and of the Jewish Community Centers, and (b) the "Social Ethical Movement" of Edward Denison and Arnold Toynbee which led to the "Settlements" of Toynbee Hall in England, and Coit's Neighborhood Guild and Jane Addams's Hull House in the United States.

[2] Howard Radest, Toward Common Ground (1969), which chronicles the growth of the Movement in the United States.

[3] Benny Kraut, From Reform Judaism to Ethical Culture: The Religious Evolution of Felix Adler (1979).

[4] Horace Friess, Felix Adler and Ethical Culture ( 1981).

[5] Edward Ericson, The Humanist Way (1988), which places our thought in a larger context.

All will repay study by yielding up a richer and deeper appreciation of the thought and experience that constitute our reason for being.