Twilight Club
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The Twilight Club is an organization which was founded by Charles Wingate in the late 19th century with the intention of countering the moral decline of society by bolstering spiritual and ethical awareness. The Twilight Club was inspired by the British philosopher Herbert Spencer. Although granted honorary membership, in a letter to the Twilight Club Spencer denied credit for the group. The name of the club refers not only to the fact that their meetings were held at the twilight of the day, but also to the evening twilight of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th century. Their stated purpose was that of ethical and cultural renewal of their world.
Notable members
- Andrew Carnegie
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Herbert Spencer
- Mark Twain
- Walt Whitman
- Walter Russell
- James Howard Bridge
- John Burroughs
- Richard Watson Gilder
- Edward Markham
- Henry Holt
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Rudyard Kipling
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Calvin Coolidge
- John Dewey
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Robert Collier
- Mihajlo Pupin
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References
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- The One-World Purpose, (in cooperation with Lao Russell), Univ of Science & Philosophy, 1960