The Rationale and Ethics of Freemasonry: Or, The Masonic Institution Considered as a Means of Social and Individual ProgressR. Macoy, 1859 - 298 pages |
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... civilization , demonstrates with sufficient clearness , that it must have grown out of the moral and intellectual needs of human nature . Our object in the following pages , is to show the reason of its existence , and designate the ...
... civilization , demonstrates with sufficient clearness , that it must have grown out of the moral and intellectual needs of human nature . Our object in the following pages , is to show the reason of its existence , and designate the ...
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... Civilization . In the Egyptian , Grecian , and Indian mysteries , and the Druidical institutions of the north of Europe , were nourished and developed those moral principles and sentiments , and those social ideas , which afterward ...
... Civilization . In the Egyptian , Grecian , and Indian mysteries , and the Druidical institutions of the north of Europe , were nourished and developed those moral principles and sentiments , and those social ideas , which afterward ...
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... civilization , and means of social , moral , intellectual , and religious progress . And this theory , we think , will be strongly and curiously confirmed by the investigations we are about to institute . If we direct our attention to ...
... civilization , and means of social , moral , intellectual , and religious progress . And this theory , we think , will be strongly and curiously confirmed by the investigations we are about to institute . If we direct our attention to ...
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... civilization . According to the Egyptian historians , anterior to the advent of Osiris and Isis , darkness , savagery , and barbarism filled the earth . They appeared , organized society , laid the foundations of social order ...
... civilization . According to the Egyptian historians , anterior to the advent of Osiris and Isis , darkness , savagery , and barbarism filled the earth . They appeared , organized society , laid the foundations of social order ...
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... civilization , a school of virtue , politics , philosophy , and religion . After the lapse of years , however , the rites of Isis underwent some changes or modifications . Perhaps it would be better to say , they received some addi ...
... civilization , a school of virtue , politics , philosophy , and religion . After the lapse of years , however , the rites of Isis underwent some changes or modifications . Perhaps it would be better to say , they received some addi ...
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