. The Kappa Sigma book; a manual of descriptive, historical, and statistical facts concerning the Kappa Sigma fraternity. uth of Kappa Sigmacomes to us like the central truth of life—through legend andthrough tradition. Tradition—did you ever think what a tradition is; its power,its value, its utility ? Traditions are not made by any man, but bytime alone. A tradition cannot be proved. It cannot be dis-proved. It rests alone upon faith—belief—and that is the powerof tradition, for faith is the greatest power in all the universe. . THE EUROPEAN TRADITION 55 Happy, then, that nation and that peo
. The Kappa Sigma book; a manual of descriptive, historical, and statistical facts concerning the Kappa Sigma fraternity. uth of Kappa Sigmacomes to us like the central truth of life—through legend andthrough tradition. Tradition—did you ever think what a tradition is; its power,its value, its utility ? Traditions are not made by any man, but bytime alone. A tradition cannot be proved. It cannot be dis-proved. It rests alone upon faith—belief—and that is the powerof tradition, for faith is the greatest power in all the universe. . THE EUROPEAN TRADITION 55 Happy, then, that nation and that people who believe. Thattheir tradition be true or false, reasonable or unreasonable, is oflittle moment, so that it is believed. My brothers, do you realize that Kappa Sigma shares with theMasonry the privileges of having a traditional origin, and thatthese two seeret orders, so far as I know, are the only two thatcannot point with historic accuracy to the date of their founding,without resort to tradition—to a time beyond which their writtenhistory extends—for a beginning? The Masons date their origin. KAPPA SIGMA 11(11 >E. STWTORI) at the building of King Solomons temple, and the sole and onlyproofs they have of this tradition are the esoteric teachings intheir ritual. What one of you does not know that this tradition—fable, if you please to call it—has made Masonry the greatestsecret organization the world has ever known? whose power forgood is written upon the history of more than one nation, andbecause of which it is destined, yet. to endure so long as manhimself endures. How account you for the marvelous growth of Kappa Sigma,for the loving devotion each of us has for the Star and Crescent, 56 THE KAPPA SIGMA BOOK the emblem of our order ? Among the youngest of college frater-nities in America, it stands to-day the greatest. Can you doubt forone moment that the living force behind its advance is bound upin its traditional history? If so, open the floodgat
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