It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

A Literary Society is the most proper form for the introduction of our Order into any state where we are yet strangers.