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The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
of having a life of labour closed b y the extinction of their vital powers in death ! Man being , as we have seen , destined to labour , possesses a fund of industry , and a happy facility in inventing arts and . sciences , whether mechanical or liberal ; all of which have a tendency to the benefit of social intercourse . Therefore we need not question but in
that the allwise God , by implanting the ^ e propensities our nature , intended that we should not only live happily as individuals , but be mutually assistant to each other for the good of human society ; which , in the Scripture phrase , is to be all of one mind , having compassion one for another , and to love as brethren . ' See him from nature rising slow to art !'
' To copy instinct then , was reason ' s part . ' Thus then to man the voice of nature spake—* ' Go , from the creatures thy instructions take : " Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; " Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; " Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; " Learn of the mole to lowthe worm to weave
p , ; " Learn of the little nautilus to sail , " Spread the thin oar , and catch the driving gale ; " Here , too , all forms of social union find , " And hence let reason late instruct mankind * . " . We may be well assured that Adam instructed his descendants in
all the knowledge he himself possessed ; which , when we consider his immediate communications with his Maker , and the extraordinary perceptions he purchased at so dear a price , contrary to express command , must have been far greater than that of an ordinary man born amid the wild scenes of nature , with . no farther opportunities of information than the mere supply of immediate wants afforded . Accordingly we find cultivation soon attended to in Adam ' s
family , for , of his two sons , Abe ) was a keeper of sheep , and Cain a tiller of the earth . After their separation , upon the murder of Abel , Cain , with his family , being expelled from Adam ' s altars , built a city , and called it Dedicate or Consecrate , after the name of his eldest son Enoch ; whose race following this example , improved themselves not only in geometry and Masonry , but made discoveries of other
curious arts f . Thus Jabal , the eldest son of Lamech , first invented tlie use of tents , as moveable dwellings adapted to grazing , and taught the art of managing herds of cattle , which heretofore had been dispersed , wild through the land : Jubal , his third son , was the inventor of music and musical instruments ; and Tubal Cain , his youngest sonfound out the art of forging and working metals .
, The descendants of Seth , the third son of Adam , came nothing behind those of Cain in the cultivation of useful arts ; this patriarch of the other half of mankind , must have greatly profited under the continual tuition of Adam ; with whom he lived till the year of the world 030 , and succeeded him then with the assistance of Enosb .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Magazine, Or General And Complete Library.
of having a life of labour closed b y the extinction of their vital powers in death ! Man being , as we have seen , destined to labour , possesses a fund of industry , and a happy facility in inventing arts and . sciences , whether mechanical or liberal ; all of which have a tendency to the benefit of social intercourse . Therefore we need not question but in
that the allwise God , by implanting the ^ e propensities our nature , intended that we should not only live happily as individuals , but be mutually assistant to each other for the good of human society ; which , in the Scripture phrase , is to be all of one mind , having compassion one for another , and to love as brethren . ' See him from nature rising slow to art !'
' To copy instinct then , was reason ' s part . ' Thus then to man the voice of nature spake—* ' Go , from the creatures thy instructions take : " Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; " Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; " Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; " Learn of the mole to lowthe worm to weave
p , ; " Learn of the little nautilus to sail , " Spread the thin oar , and catch the driving gale ; " Here , too , all forms of social union find , " And hence let reason late instruct mankind * . " . We may be well assured that Adam instructed his descendants in
all the knowledge he himself possessed ; which , when we consider his immediate communications with his Maker , and the extraordinary perceptions he purchased at so dear a price , contrary to express command , must have been far greater than that of an ordinary man born amid the wild scenes of nature , with . no farther opportunities of information than the mere supply of immediate wants afforded . Accordingly we find cultivation soon attended to in Adam ' s
family , for , of his two sons , Abe ) was a keeper of sheep , and Cain a tiller of the earth . After their separation , upon the murder of Abel , Cain , with his family , being expelled from Adam ' s altars , built a city , and called it Dedicate or Consecrate , after the name of his eldest son Enoch ; whose race following this example , improved themselves not only in geometry and Masonry , but made discoveries of other
curious arts f . Thus Jabal , the eldest son of Lamech , first invented tlie use of tents , as moveable dwellings adapted to grazing , and taught the art of managing herds of cattle , which heretofore had been dispersed , wild through the land : Jubal , his third son , was the inventor of music and musical instruments ; and Tubal Cain , his youngest sonfound out the art of forging and working metals .
, The descendants of Seth , the third son of Adam , came nothing behind those of Cain in the cultivation of useful arts ; this patriarch of the other half of mankind , must have greatly profited under the continual tuition of Adam ; with whom he lived till the year of the world 030 , and succeeded him then with the assistance of Enosb .