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MR. F. J. GOULD, who died on April 6, was one of the most devoted and persistent workers in the cause of humanism and world peace. He was born in 1855 and kept up his activities in writing and speaking for his faith to within a few weeks of his death. He himself published annually an account of what he had done in the way of writing, editing and above all giving moral lessons to the young, and this amazing record moved large numbers of persons to subscribe to a sustentation fund which had become necessary for him when his uneasy relations with the London School Board came to an end in his early years. He had been an assistant master in East End elementary schools, and the kind of religious teaching which was required of teachers in those days was much more hotly debated than it is now in less dogmatic days. But Gould's ideal was never in doubt and never changed. He advocated from first to last the teaching of a sympathetic outline of the chief faiths of the world and the education of the young mainly by moral and historical lessons based on the admirable features of the past.
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MARVIN, F. Mr. F. J. Gould. Nature 141, 820 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141820b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141820b0