Neighbourhood guilds: an instrument of social reform, by Stanton Coit
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The message of man: a book of ethical scriptures, gathered from many sources and arranged
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Stanton Coit
S. Sonnenschein and co., ld., 1905
Philosophy; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Maxims; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Religion / Meditations
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A Students' Manual of Ethical Philosophy: Adapted from the German of G. Von Gizycki
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Two responsive services in the form and spirit of the litany and the ten commandments: for use in families, schools, and churches with a commentary
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Stanton Coit was an American leader and founder of America's first social settlement.
Background
Stanton Coit was born on August 11, 1857 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. He was the fourth of seven children, but only he and two sisters lived to maturity. His father, Harvey Coit, a well-to-do dry goods merchant, was a native of Norwich, Massachussets, and a descendant of John Coit, who emigrated from England to America around 1630. His mother, Elizabeth (Greer) Coit, was born in Ohio; she had abandoned her orthodox Episcopal faith to become an ardent Spiritualist, and was a major influence in Coit's life.
Education
Coit graduated in 1879 from Amherst College, and after remaining for two years as tutor in English literature, moved on to New York City. There he attended Columbia University, lived in the slums, and worked with Felix Adler, founder of the Society for Ethical Culture. His own Emersonian bent and Adler's influence took Coit to Germany in 1883 to study Kant and idealist philosophy under Georg von Gizycki (a later co-worker in the Ethical movement). Coit received a Ph. D. from the University of Berlin in 1885, and following three months at Toynbee Hall, the pioneer social settlement in London, resumed his work with Adler in New York.
Career
In 1886 Coit moved to the Lower East Side, purchased a building at 146 Forsyth Street, between Rivington and Delancey streets, and there established what he called a "Neighborhood Guild"--the beginnings of the first social settlement in America. By organizing the working classes into "guilds, " each of which was to contain about a hundred families, Coit hoped to regenerate the slums and thereby provide a base for civic reform. Unlike many middle-class socialists and reformers of his day, he had complete faith in the ability of the workingman to run his own affairs; leadership for activities sponsored by the guild was to arise directly out of the community. In this respect he distinguished his enterprise from Toynbee Hall and other English settlements. Joined at the Neighborhood Guild by other reformers, ministers, and labor leaders, Coit organized lectures, a kindergarten, theatricals, gymnasiums, and clubs, where boys and girls read books and took lessons in such subjects as wood carving and elocution. At the same time Coit proselytized heavily for Adler's Ethical Culture Society, so successfully, in fact, that he was offered the major Ethical ministry in Britain, succeeding Moncure D. Conway, at South Place Chapel, Finsbury, London. When he left New York in 1888, the Neighborhood Guild almost collapsed; it was reorganized in 1891 as the University Settlement by two of its original leaders, Charles B. Stover and Edward King. Shortly afterward John Lovejoy Elliott, another member of the Ethical Culture Society, established the Hudson Guild, which incorporated some of Coit's ideas. But Coit had little influence on the American settlement movement after 1888; except for occasional visits, he spent the rest of his long life in England. In England, Coit at first devoted himself to establishing Neighborhood Guilds, starting with one in London at Kentish Town. The idea took rapid root, and within three years he had five clubs, a circulating library, adult education classes, a choral and dance group, free Sunday concerts, and other activities. During the 1890's Coit turned increasingly to Ethical work, in part because of his success at South Place Chapel, where during his three-year tenure his popular lectures doubled membership. Yet Coit was an idiosyncratic figure. A nervous extrovert with an excitable disposition and a flair for the dramatic, he developed his own personal synthesis of Emerson, Coleridge, Kant, the natural sciences, and socialism. He caused considerable consternation among his colleagues when, in 1909, he established an Ethical Church in the London suburb of Bayswater. When this seemed unsuccessful, he challenged the Church of England to remake itself along Ethical lines. Both ventures met opposition from those in the Ethical movement who regarded all churches as anathema. His Ethical Church did succeed as a reform center, attracting men like Bernard Shaw, Edward Carpenter, Walter Crane, Graham Wallas, L. T. Hobhouse, and J. A. Hobson. But his effort to create an Ethical liturgy and ritual failed to attract attention. He then turned to the study of the psychology of religion and suggested detailed formal changes that the Church of England should make. Hoping that God-worship could somehow be psychologically transferred to humanistic worship of communal moral ideals, he devised an apparatus of theoretical and psychological assumptions to supplant the Church's age-old myths and historic traditions. Influenced by Sir John Seeley's Natural Religion, Coit eventually came to believe that each nation (even the United States) needed its own national church. This took him far from the American Ethical-humanist camp; indeed, Adler regarded him as the enfant terrible of the Ethical movement. Although in later life Coit moved away from practical social reforms and concerned himself with such matters as making a three-volume translation of Nicolai Hartmann's treatise, Ethik (1932), his ethical socialism never dimmed. He had been an active Fabian, he stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate for Wakefield in the 1906 election, and he lectured throughout England for the Labour Church at the turn of the century. Coit died at the age of eighty-six at Birling Gap, near Eastbourne, Sussex, England. Funeral services were held at Golders Green Crematorium.
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On December 21, 1898, he married a liberal German refugee, Mrs. Fanny Adela Wetzler, who encouraged him also in feminist work. They had three daughters: Adela I, Gwendolen E. , and Virginia.