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; 873
IT 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.
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