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Masonic Processions.
atelier of moral science . Are we not all workmen ? The square , the level and the compasses explain themselves so that he that runs may read ; but to the hard-handed sons of daily toil they have a more touching ancl lively significance—the bread of the famil y ! Freemasons are Utopians by right of birth , by privilege of
constitution , by immemorial charters , by the inevitable anticipation of the wildest dreams of social philanthropists , which our every banner proclaims ancl our every symbol antedates . For do they not foreshow a
time" When the world shall be Much better visibly : and when so far As social life and its relations tend , Men , morals , manners shall be lifted up To a pure height we know not of , nor dream -. When all men ' s rights and duties shall be clear ,
And charitably exercised and borne : When education , knowledge , and good deeds Shall have just , equal rights , ancl civil claims ; Great crimes shall be cast out , as were of old Devils possessing madmen . Truth shall reign ; Nature shall be rethroned ; and man sublimed !" E . F . S . P .
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Masonic Processions.
atelier of moral science . Are we not all workmen ? The square , the level and the compasses explain themselves so that he that runs may read ; but to the hard-handed sons of daily toil they have a more touching ancl lively significance—the bread of the famil y ! Freemasons are Utopians by right of birth , by privilege of
constitution , by immemorial charters , by the inevitable anticipation of the wildest dreams of social philanthropists , which our every banner proclaims ancl our every symbol antedates . For do they not foreshow a
time" When the world shall be Much better visibly : and when so far As social life and its relations tend , Men , morals , manners shall be lifted up To a pure height we know not of , nor dream -. When all men ' s rights and duties shall be clear ,
And charitably exercised and borne : When education , knowledge , and good deeds Shall have just , equal rights , ancl civil claims ; Great crimes shall be cast out , as were of old Devils possessing madmen . Truth shall reign ; Nature shall be rethroned ; and man sublimed !" E . F . S . P .