If The Effort Also Is Predestined, It

I Took My Obligations From White Men, Not From Negroes. When I Have To Accept Negroes As Brothers Or Leave Masonry, I Shall Leave It

Fictions Are Necessary For The People, And The Truth Becomes Deadly To Those Who Are Not Strong Enough To Contemplate It In All Its Brilliance. In Fact, What Can There Be In Common Between The Vile Multitude And Sublime Wisdom? The Truth Must Be Kept Secret, And The Masses Need A Teaching Proportioned To Their Imperfect Reason.

The Spoken Discourse May Roll On Strongly As The Great Tidal Wave; But, Like The Wave, It Dies At Last Feebly On The Sands. It Is Heard By Few, Remembered By Still Fewer, And Fades Away, Like An Echo In The Mountains, Leaving No Token Of Power. It Is The Written Human Speech, That Gave Power And Permanence To Human Thought.

If The Effort Also Is Predestined, It Is Not The Less Our Effort, Made Of Our Free Will.

Faith Begins Where Reason Sinks Exhausted.