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wise behave in an unbrotherly fashion to his fellow- 

 students ? If you want a ground of brotherhood with 

 men, not merely in these islands, but in America, on 

 the Continent in a word, all over the world such as 

 rank, wealth, fashion, or other artificial arrangements 

 of the world cannot give and cannot take away; if 

 you want to feel yourself as good as any man in 

 theory, because you are as good as any man in 

 practice, except those who are better than you in 

 the same line, which is open to any and every man ; 

 if you wish to have the inspiring and ennobling feeling 

 of 'being a brother in a great freemasonry which owns 

 no difference of rank, of creed, or of nationality the 

 only freemasonry, the only International League which 

 is likely to make mankind (as we all hope they will be 

 some day) one then become men of science. Join 

 the freemasonry in which Hugh Miller, the poor 

 Cromarty stonemason, in which Michael Faraday, the 

 poor bookbinder's boy, became the companions and 

 friends of the noblest and most learned on earth, looked 

 up to by them not as equals merely but as teachers 

 and guides, because philosophers and discoverers. 



Do you wish to be great ? Then be great with 

 true greatness ; which is, knowing the facts of 

 nature, and being able to use them. Do you wish to 

 be strong ? Then be strong with true strength -, 

 which is, knowing the facts of nature, and being able 

 to use them. Do you wish to be wise ? Then be 

 wise with true wisdom ; which is, knowing the facts 

 of nature, and being able to use them. Do you wish 

 to be free ? Then be free with true freedom ; which 

 is again, knowing the facts of nature, and being able 

 to use them. 



