"What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men."
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About Albert Pike
Albert Pike was a prominent American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason known for his influence in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, Pike later moved to Arkansas where he became a lawyer and active in local government. He served as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Besides his military career, Pike was a prolific writer, contributing to various publications and producing works on history, philosophy, and Freemasonry.
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