People have ascribed the tendency of the present day to the slip which has occurred all over the world in morality and ethics, as a consequence of the decided slip which has come upon religious matters as a result of the decidedly materialistic outlook of the age.
I think it is the job of Masonry to restore Society to something like an even keel and that can be brought about, I think, if we harmonise modern science with modern philosophy and thereby with religion, using that word in the broadest sense.
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1943 - Mind, Matter and Masonry - Bro C P T Throsby.