What is the use of prattling about Universal Brotherhood, if you do not live it?
Sometimes, in discussions on Brotherhood, it is spoken of as though it only meant soft words and well-turned phrases, sentimentality and not reality.

It means work, constant, steadfast, unwearied work, for those who require service at our hands; not soft words to each other, but work for the world, that is the true meaning of Brotherhood.
Pass from that to our next field of work, sketched out by our Second Object.

Without that you cannot rightly work for Brotherhood, for you will not understand the knowledge already garnered.

You must learn in order to teach, you must study in order to understand, and this Object is not carried on in our Lodges as effectively as it ought to be; for it is translated into one man studying, and pouring out the fruits of his study into the open mouths round him on every side.

That is all very well in the beginning when the young bird comes out of the egg.
It is necessary that the father and mother bird should pour food into the wide open beak; but some of you ought to have gone beyond that in the thirty-two years of life of the Society: you ought to be ready to help, and not only to be helped.