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I Appear, My Fellow-citizens, In Your Presence And In That Of Heaven To Bind Myself By The Solemnities Of Religious Obligation To The Faithful Performance Of The Duties Allotted To Me In The Station To Which I Have Been Called.

Life Is A Problem; Mortal Man Was Made To Solve The Solemn Problem Right Or Wrong.

But America Is A Great, Unwieldy Body. Its Progress Must Be Slow... Like A Coach And Six - The Swiftest Horses Must Be Slackened And The Slowest Quickened, That All May Keep An Even Pace.

I Do Conscientiously And Sincerely Believe That The Order Of Freemasonry, If Not The Greatest, Is One Of The Greatest Moral And Political Evils Under Which The Union Is Now Laboring ... A Conspiracy Of The Few Against The Equal Rights Of The Many ...masonry Ought Forever To Be Abolished. It Is Wrong - Essentially Wrong - A Seed Of Evil, Which Can Never Produce Any Good.

The Great Problem Of Legislation Is, So To Organize The Civil Government Of A Community... That In The Operation Of Human Institutions Upon Social Action, Self-love And Social May Be Made The Same.