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"When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished."
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"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."
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"But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon."
"In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head."
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"This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice."
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