unbrotherly fashion to his fellow-students?--If you want a ground of
brotherhood with men, not merely in these islands, but in America, on
the Continent--in a word, all over the world--such as rank, wealth,
fashion, or other artificial arrangements of the world cannot give
and cannot take away; if you want to feel yourself as good as any man
in theory, because you are as good as any man in practice, except
those who are better than you in the same line, which is open to any
and every man; if you wish to have the inspiring and ennobling
feeling of being a brother in a great freemasonry which owns no
difference of rank, of creed, or of nationality--the only
freemasonry, the only International League which is likely to make
mankind (as we all hope they will be some day) one--then become men
of science. Join the freemasonry in which Hugh Miller, the poor
Cromarty stonemason, in which Michael Faraday, the poor bookbinder's
boy, became the companions and friends of the noblest and most
learned on earth, looked up to by them not as equals merely but as
teachers and guides, because philosophers and discoverers.

Do you wish to be great? Then be great with true greatness; which
is,--knowing the facts of nature, and being able to use them. Do you
wish to be strong? Then be strong with true strength; which is,
knowing the facts of nature, and being able to use them. Do you wish
to be wise? Then be wise with true wisdom; which is, knowing the
facts of nature, and being able to use them. Do you wish to be free?
Then be free with true freedom; which is again, knowing the facts of
nature, and being able to use them.

I dare say some of my readers, especially the younger ones, will
demur to that last speech of mine. Well, I hope they will not be
angry with me for saying it. I, at least, shall certainly not he