The chisel, in the American Rite, is one of the tools of the Mark Master, and symbolises the effects of education on the human mind. For as the artist, by the aid of this instrument, gives form and regularity to the shapeless mass of stone, so education, by cultivating the ideas and by polishing the thoughts, transforms the ignorant savage into a civilised being.

Albert G Mackay.

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