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388 ADDRESS TO THE FRATERNITY.
to every current of fashion or prejudice. This, again,
gives him unlimited power; for he can make use of these
prejudices to lead men by troops. He finds them already
associated by their prejudices, and waiting for a leader to
concentrate their strength, and set them in motion. And
when once great bodies of men are set in motion, with a
creature of their fancy for a guide, even the engineer himself
cannot say," thus far shalt thou go, and no farther/ "
And here I would stop, fearing to weaken the force of
the appeal of this enlightened and just man: but I have a
word to say to my brethren.
CHAPTER LX.
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CONCLUSION.
> l Let love bo without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil, cleare to
that which is good: bo kindly afiectioned one to anothei with brotherly
love, in honour preferring one another."—/20910m, xii. 9, 10.
FOR you, brethren, I commenced this work; to you have I
dedicated it; and, if you have accompanied me through
its pages, your heart will testify with me, that it is not an
effort to seize the present excitement for the worship
of Mammon; but a collection of documents, selected
with labour and arranged with care, having in its aim solely
the illustration of Free Masonry, without the fear of man,
or the hope of earthly reward, to turn aside the shaft of
truth.
And what, my brethren, do we find Free Masonry?*—