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Freemasonry Vindicated,
order to make him silent , subservient to their ambitious views , and to be able to gratify , at his expense , all their passions , they ever took care to keep him in Ignorance and Fear—the two pivots on which their power maintained itself . They led him through tortuous paths , that their designs should not be discovered and
, beguiled their circuitous journey with terrific tales . They treated him , in short , as a nurse treats a young child , employing alternately songs and threats , to lull him asleep or make him silent . Man in ignorance is a man in darkness ; and as a man is always afraid in darkness , both physical and moralit follows thatbhis
, , y being constantly kept in ignorance , he is kept in constant fears . His fears , at last , become so habitual in him that they ultimately convert themselves into a sort of want ; so much so , that he actually would fancy he wanted something had he nothing to fear . In the same manner education may be made to habituate the
mind to opinions the most monstrous , or to the most preposterous prejudices , as custom does the body to attitudes the most uneasy or to any sort of diet . A man , whose imagination has been worked up by superstitious notions into a state of fear , will have that fear which he thinks essential to his nature ; nothing , in fact ,
does he fear so much as the idea of having nothing to fear . But FREEMASONRY , far from encouraging Prejudices , perpetuating Ignorance , propagating Darkness , exciting Fears , or feeding Intolerance , teaches Truth and Science , Toleration and Justice , Courage and Hope ; and , spreading its beneficent li ght throughout the globe , it proves itself a universal tie , which unites all men of
every country , of every opinion , and of every persuasion . It is a sure asylum , where the weary traveller finds a safe refuge from all the winds and storms , from all the physical and moral evils which afflict , agitate , and desolate mankind . It is the Areopagus , where man learns the real course he has been destined to pursue ; where Reason and Science enlighten him in his career , and , by taking
them for his guides , he will reach safety the consoling haven of truth and happiness . Then he learns that Virtue does exist on earth , and that she is not the daughter of Ignorance and Imposture , but of Science and Truth ; he learns that the love of our fellow beings alone can afford a happy existence . In vain lie strives to find that peace
and happiness he is so anxious to attain , among the turbulence and comvptedness of the profane world , till , at last , he bends his steps towards our Temple—he enters it , he listens , he instructs
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Freemasonry Vindicated,
order to make him silent , subservient to their ambitious views , and to be able to gratify , at his expense , all their passions , they ever took care to keep him in Ignorance and Fear—the two pivots on which their power maintained itself . They led him through tortuous paths , that their designs should not be discovered and
, beguiled their circuitous journey with terrific tales . They treated him , in short , as a nurse treats a young child , employing alternately songs and threats , to lull him asleep or make him silent . Man in ignorance is a man in darkness ; and as a man is always afraid in darkness , both physical and moralit follows thatbhis
, , y being constantly kept in ignorance , he is kept in constant fears . His fears , at last , become so habitual in him that they ultimately convert themselves into a sort of want ; so much so , that he actually would fancy he wanted something had he nothing to fear . In the same manner education may be made to habituate the
mind to opinions the most monstrous , or to the most preposterous prejudices , as custom does the body to attitudes the most uneasy or to any sort of diet . A man , whose imagination has been worked up by superstitious notions into a state of fear , will have that fear which he thinks essential to his nature ; nothing , in fact ,
does he fear so much as the idea of having nothing to fear . But FREEMASONRY , far from encouraging Prejudices , perpetuating Ignorance , propagating Darkness , exciting Fears , or feeding Intolerance , teaches Truth and Science , Toleration and Justice , Courage and Hope ; and , spreading its beneficent li ght throughout the globe , it proves itself a universal tie , which unites all men of
every country , of every opinion , and of every persuasion . It is a sure asylum , where the weary traveller finds a safe refuge from all the winds and storms , from all the physical and moral evils which afflict , agitate , and desolate mankind . It is the Areopagus , where man learns the real course he has been destined to pursue ; where Reason and Science enlighten him in his career , and , by taking
them for his guides , he will reach safety the consoling haven of truth and happiness . Then he learns that Virtue does exist on earth , and that she is not the daughter of Ignorance and Imposture , but of Science and Truth ; he learns that the love of our fellow beings alone can afford a happy existence . In vain lie strives to find that peace
and happiness he is so anxious to attain , among the turbulence and comvptedness of the profane world , till , at last , he bends his steps towards our Temple—he enters it , he listens , he instructs