Man's Real Genius And Knowledge Remains Preserved

Doubt, The Essential Preliminary Of All Improvement And Discovery, Must Accompany The Stages Of Man's Onward Progress. The Faculty Of Doubting And Questioning, Without Which Those Of Comparison And Judgment Would Be Useless, Is Itself A Divine Prerogative Of The Reason.

Justice Is Peculiarly Indispensable To Nations . The Unjust State Is Doomed Of God To Calamity And Ruin. This Is The Teaching Of The Eternal Wisdom And Of History .

All The Great And Beneficent Operations Of Nature Are Produced By Slow And Often Imperceptible Degrees. The Work Of Destruction And Devastation Only Is Violent And Rapid.

Force, Unregulated Or Ill-regulated, Is Not Only Wasted In The Void, Like That Of Gunpowder Burned In The Open Air, And Steam Unconfined By Science; But, Striking In The Dark, And Its Blows Meeting Only The Air, They Recoil, And Bruise Itself.

Masonry Is Not A Religion. He Who Makes Of It A Religious Belief, Falsifies And Denaturalizes It.