The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

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.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.