"Masonry is the activity of closely united men who, employing symbolic forms borrowed principally from the mason's trade and from architecture, work for the welfare of mankind, striving morally to ennoble themselves and others, and thereby bring about a universal league of Mankind, which they aspire to exhibit even now on a small scale."

Joseph Fort Newton, The Builders, 1951.

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