One World At A Time

About the Book

These essays address some of the challenges to character and the moral sense in our materialistic culture as getting and spending has eclipsed the influence of organized religion and squeezed moral idealism to the margins of our collective consciousness. Thoreau’s examined life and reflections serve to illustrate the kind of moral wisdom practicable for a pluralistic society and a multicultural world, the wisdom epitomized in Thoreau’s deathbed admonition when asked for his thoughts on the world to come: “One world at a time.”

About the Author

Bill Phillips is a retired English teacher with forty years of experience in high schools, colleges and community outreach programs. A self-described “generalist,” he has consistently used literature to engage students in the exploration of values and principles. With Mary, his wife of more than fifty years, he lives in a cottage on a lake in Maine. Parents of three and grandparents of nine, the couple devote much of their time to family commitments and voluntary service to a number of nonprofit organizations in their community.