For they will only be indulging their own desire of personal admiration.
ADAM WEISHAUPTThe head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch
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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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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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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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There is no way of influencing men so powerfully as by means of the women.
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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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Every man is entitled therefore, to give any explanation of the symbols and a system of the doctrine that he can render palatable.
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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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This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done,
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I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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