Speculative Masonry, Its Mission, Its Evolution, and Its Landmarks

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Excerpt from Speculative Masonry, Its Mission, Its Evolution, and Its Landmarks: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lodge of Instruction in Connection With Lodge Progress, Glasgow, No, 873IT is in and through symbols that man, consciously or unconsciously, lives, works. And has his being: those ages, moreover, are accounted the noblest which can the best recognise symbolical worth, and prize it the highest. - Carlyle.Confucius was asked Is there any one maxim that ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? He replied Surely the maxim of charity is such z - DO not unto others what you would not they Should do unto you.' - Confucius by Lionel Giles, M. A.Not all men build alike their lives some rear their edifice with ease, but most with an infinite labour, after many failures and bitter griefs. Only he is happy who will not be dismayed by grief or failure, and who finds in human love a divine encourage ment to raise stone upon stone till naught is wanting. Anon.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.