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"2. Do you sincerely declare that you love man- 

 kind in general, of what profession or religion soever ? 

 Answer. I do. 



"3. Do you think any person ought to be harmed in 

 his body, name or goods, for mere speculative opin- 

 ions, or his external way of worship! Answer. No. 



"4. Do you love truth for truth 's sake, and will you 

 endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, 

 and communicate it to others? Answer. Yes." 



It is very probable that this admirable test was 

 adopted by the Junto at its first establishment, and 

 made a part of its rules. In another part of the same 

 volume, 15 there is another paper of Dr. Franklin, en- 

 titled: "Proposals and queries for the consideration 

 of the Junto, " and dated June 30th, 1732, between 

 four and five years after it was established. It does 

 not appear whether those proposals were adopted; 

 but one of them is : " That all new members be quali- 

 fied by the four qualifications, and all the old ones 

 take . . . (the sentence is not finished). This seems 

 to imply that the four qualifications, which can be no 

 others than those above cited, were already in use 

 among the Junto, and we shall see hereafter that 

 they were made part of the amended rules in 1766, 

 and afterwards, until the entirely new organization 

 of the Junto in 1768, which produced the union. 



This is all the information which the works of 

 Franklin supply us with on the subject of the Junto. 



15 P. 551. 



