Excerpt from Temple of Truth, or the Science of Ever-Progressive Knowledge: Containing the Foundation and Elements of a System for Arriving at Absolute Certainty in All Things, Being a Message of Never-Ending Joy, and the Abiding Herald of Better Times to All Men of a Good-Will, or Desirous of Acquiring It

Lastly, if foundation, plan and material are all good, it yet requires that the work should be done by a competent workman, in a masterly style, for only when these four conditions are all present and combined, the completed edifice can alone be expected to exhibit that degree of perfection wherein security, usefulness, comfort, beauty and durability constitute the leading, conjoint traits, making it a safe, commodious and pleasant home for its in dwellers, and an attractive and complacent spectacle for the eye of the beholder to rest upon.

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