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Account Of Druidism.
purities * . But , as I have hinted above , it would be impossible to separate all the superstitions which were countenanced as popular tenets by the Druids before the arrival of the Phenician colony , from the superstitions which this colony introduced . I shall not , therefore , in this place , attempt to discriminate the Phenician from the primitive Danmonian religion , For the Grecian colony , they were surely not
inactive in spreading their religious tenets where they settled ; though there is more of fancy than of real truth in the accounts which are pretended to have been transmitted through the line of history , respecting their deities or their temples , in this country . The authorities on which such traditions rest are very doubtful , if not palpably spurious j and yet our chronicles had a certain ? . « antral ; though when they got footing on a simple fact , they so embellished it by poetical fictions , that many are led to suspect the whole to be false because they are , convinced that the greatest part is so . That the Grecian colony built
a temple at the KMB | U _ W < . v , or , incorporating with the Danmonu , erected a temple at Exeter , I will not presume to assert : but , if the existence of the colony be granted , we need not doubt but they had buildings appropriated to religious worship , The Belgas ,. invading our coasts , drove the Britons of Danmonium into the central parts , and thus contributed to spread the Druid reli gion over the rest of the island . With , respect , however , to the religion of the Belgaeand of the other
con-, tinental tribes , I shall not attempt to characterise it ; certain it is , that before the time of Caesar the Gauls were in possession of Druidism , though in a very imperfect state . Their reli gion could have ill-resembled the Druidism of Danmonium , whilst they blindly adopted those corrupt notions and impure ceremonies which prevailed in the greater part of Europe . But , amidst these tokens of degeneracy , they
still displayed some proof both of wisdom and of diffidence , whilst , conscious of their reli gious inferiority , and not ashamed to avow it , they frequently recurred for instruction to the Abori gines of Britain .
Masonic Anecdote
MASONIC ANECDOTE
OF THE LATE KING OF PRUSSIA .
THE late King of Prussia was one of the most illustrious members of the Society of Free and Accepted Masons . He was taught at an earl y period of life to think the institution had a great tendency to . promote charity , good fellowship , harmony , and brotherl y lov ' e ; and he resolved to become a Freemason as soon as a favourable occasion should offer ; but he Was obliged to wait a long time for it ; for
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Account Of Druidism.
purities * . But , as I have hinted above , it would be impossible to separate all the superstitions which were countenanced as popular tenets by the Druids before the arrival of the Phenician colony , from the superstitions which this colony introduced . I shall not , therefore , in this place , attempt to discriminate the Phenician from the primitive Danmonian religion , For the Grecian colony , they were surely not
inactive in spreading their religious tenets where they settled ; though there is more of fancy than of real truth in the accounts which are pretended to have been transmitted through the line of history , respecting their deities or their temples , in this country . The authorities on which such traditions rest are very doubtful , if not palpably spurious j and yet our chronicles had a certain ? . « antral ; though when they got footing on a simple fact , they so embellished it by poetical fictions , that many are led to suspect the whole to be false because they are , convinced that the greatest part is so . That the Grecian colony built
a temple at the KMB | U _ W < . v , or , incorporating with the Danmonu , erected a temple at Exeter , I will not presume to assert : but , if the existence of the colony be granted , we need not doubt but they had buildings appropriated to religious worship , The Belgas ,. invading our coasts , drove the Britons of Danmonium into the central parts , and thus contributed to spread the Druid reli gion over the rest of the island . With , respect , however , to the religion of the Belgaeand of the other
con-, tinental tribes , I shall not attempt to characterise it ; certain it is , that before the time of Caesar the Gauls were in possession of Druidism , though in a very imperfect state . Their reli gion could have ill-resembled the Druidism of Danmonium , whilst they blindly adopted those corrupt notions and impure ceremonies which prevailed in the greater part of Europe . But , amidst these tokens of degeneracy , they
still displayed some proof both of wisdom and of diffidence , whilst , conscious of their reli gious inferiority , and not ashamed to avow it , they frequently recurred for instruction to the Abori gines of Britain .
Masonic Anecdote
MASONIC ANECDOTE
OF THE LATE KING OF PRUSSIA .
THE late King of Prussia was one of the most illustrious members of the Society of Free and Accepted Masons . He was taught at an earl y period of life to think the institution had a great tendency to . promote charity , good fellowship , harmony , and brotherl y lov ' e ; and he resolved to become a Freemason as soon as a favourable occasion should offer ; but he Was obliged to wait a long time for it ; for