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May your Society, which preserves in its name and 

 exemplifies in its practice the old and all-inclusive 

 meaning of the term Philosophy, long continue to main- 

 tain and propagate the traditions that you derive from 

 a Founder who took all useful knowledge for his prov- 

 ince, who was a Citizen of the World, and whose chief 

 concern was the amelioration of mankind. 



" Courage, wisdom, integrity, and honor," wrote 



Benjamin Franklin, " are not to be measured by the 



sphere assigned them to act in, but by the trials they 



undergo, and the vouchers they furnish ; and, if so 



manifested, need neither robes nor titles to set them ofT." 



The Colonial Society of Massachusetts. 



George Lyman Kittridge, 



President. 

 John Noble, 



Corresponding Secretary. 



Boston, the seventeenth day of 



April, nineteen hundred and six. 



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