By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
ADAM WEISHAUPTCultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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In a state of liberty and moral equality, freed from the obstacles which subordination, rank, and riches, continually throw in our way.
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The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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Of its origin, of its history, of its object, nor any explanation of its mysteries and symbols, which does not leave the mind in total uncertainty on all these points.
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We must win the common people in every corner.
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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Our secret association works in a way that nothing can withstand, and man shall soon be free and happy.
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A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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And then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.
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The public is accustomed to it, expects little from it and therefore takes little notice of it.
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The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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