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.
ADAM WEISHAUPTWe see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
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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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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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But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices
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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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My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
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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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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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None is fitter than the three lower degrees of Freemasonry
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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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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan
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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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In another situation, and in an active station in life,
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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