The latter, asecretsocietyleader, overpowered the former in terms of authority and influence.
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Oral traditions noted that in the pre-conquest period, the group was largely made up of ' ordinary individuals ' who functioned as asecretsociety.
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This is asecretsocietywith 100,000 members.
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It is said that this is asecretsociety.
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To any genuinesecretsocietyof a benefit character, founded with that object, we have no objection.
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It is like appearing before asecretsociety.
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Those of us who are part of thesecretsocietyknow that that is sometimes true but that it is often not exactly true.
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It is asecretsocietywhich lifts the curtain on the old dark clays before the white man came.
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I have quoted their letters to show that it is not asecretsociety.
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That letter, he says, qualified her for membership of hissecretsociety, and she was at once made a member.
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That is not asecretsociety, although it has its secret passwords and signs.
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It is not asecretsociety, it is not an oath-bound society, and it is not a political society.
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I quote this as an answer to the charge that this is asecretsociety.
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But it is said that this is asecretsociety, with signs and passwords.
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I know of no othersecretsociety—perhaps because it is secret—which has caused the kind of concern that freemasonry has caused.
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