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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.

naturalized slavery to the people of the South : as they can easily dispense with liberty . But the people of the North have need of liberty , for this best can procure them the means of satisfying all those wants which they have received from nature . The people of the North then are in a forced state , ' if they are not either free or barbarians . Almost all the people of the South are in some meain state of violence if

sure a they are not slaves * . Singular as it may appear , yet it has been contended by able authors , that according to the different climates the religion is in part obliged to vary . A particular class of the Indians , for instance , hate the Mahometans , because they eat cows : the Mahometans detest the Indians , because they eat hogs f . This happens to be an excellent for both

religion , because it suits their climates and constitutions best . It was contrary to the Papian Law for a man of sixty to marry a woman of fifty . As they had given great privileges to married men , the law would not suffer them to enter into useless marriages . For the same reason the Calvisian Senatus Consulium declared the marriage of a woman . above fifty with a man less than sixty to be that of

unequal ; so a woman fifty years of age could not marry without incurring the penalties of these laws . Tiberius added to the rigour of the Papian Law , and prohibited men of sixty from marrying women under fifty ; so that a man of sixty could not marry in any case whatsoever , without incurring the penalty . But Claudius abrogated this Law made under Tiberius £ . All these

regulations were more conformable to the climate of Italy than to that of the North , where a man of sixty years of age has still a considerable degree of strength , and where women of fifty are not always past child-bearing . If an old couple have a mind to end their days happily together , though the marriage is a mere ceremony , God forbid I should attempt to prevent it . —Let them enjoy themselves and forget old age ; for we were never created to live miserable .

_ But where a man gives up bis existence , if I may use the expression , for the sake of marrying a rich old widow , 1 think such an one is beneath the character of an Englishman . —He must either give up all the happiness this world can afford to make her happy , or have the ingratitude § to treat her like a brute , and thereby cause her to end her old days in misery , in a reflection on past improprieties , a sincere repentance without a remed y , and all that anguish and misery a woman who has any feelings ( there being none of either sex but feel for themselves ) must feel on such an occasion , and whose only hopes rest in a future state j | .

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THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE: OR, GENERAL AND COMPLETE LIBRARY. Article 1
LETTER II. From a Gentleman at PHILADELPHIA to his Friend in GLASCOW, on the Subject of FREE MASONRY. Article 3
OF COURAGE, FORTITUDE, and FEAR. Article 5
MEMOIRS OF THE FREEMASONS OF NAPLES. Article 8
A CHARGE DELIVERED TO THE FAITHFUL LODGE, No. 499, Article 11
ORATION ON MASONRY, Article 16
ESSAY ON STRIFE. Article 23
AN EASTERN NOVEL. Article 25
THE GENERAL HISTORY OF CHINA: Article 30
HISTORICAL DEDUCTION OF THE BRITISH DRAMA. Article 33
THE SPEECH OF COUNT T****, Article 36
TO THE PRINTER OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 38
REMARKS ON PULPIT AND BAR ORATORY. Article 38
COUNT LARGORYSKY. Article 39
THE PROPHECY OF SIBILLA TIBURTINA. Article 41
THE PROPHECY OF SIBILLA TIBURTINA ON OUR SAVIOUR. Article 43
CHARACTERS IN HARRY THE EIGHTH'S TIME. Article 44
OF ANIMALS LIVING IN SOLID BODIES. Article 46
MEMOIRS OF FRANCIS LORD RAWDON, Article 50
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE. Article 55
AN EXTRAORDINARY ANECDOTE OF GENERAL PUTNAM. Article 58
THE BASTILE OF SAXONY. Article 59
Untitled Article 61
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ROYAL CUMBERLAND FREEMASONS' SCHOOL. Article 62
THE CHARACTER OF SALADINE, Article 66
DESCRIPTION OF THE TERRESTRIAL CHRYSIPUS, Article 69
ON HAPPINESS. Article 72
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 74
SADLER's WELLS. Article 75
DUNKIRK, NOW BESIEGED BY THE DUKE OF YORK. Article 76
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 77
POETRY. Article 80
SYMPATHY TO DELIA. Article 81
AN IMPROMPTU. Article 81
THE DESERTERS. A TALE. Article 82
A LETTER FROM A LADY DYING TO HER HUSBAND. Article 83
THE SWEETS OF FRIENDSHIP. Article 83
ACROSTIC. Article 83
FOREIGN OCCURRENCES. Article 84
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 85
Untitled Article 87
Untitled Article 87
Untitled Article 87
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.

naturalized slavery to the people of the South : as they can easily dispense with liberty . But the people of the North have need of liberty , for this best can procure them the means of satisfying all those wants which they have received from nature . The people of the North then are in a forced state , ' if they are not either free or barbarians . Almost all the people of the South are in some meain state of violence if

sure a they are not slaves * . Singular as it may appear , yet it has been contended by able authors , that according to the different climates the religion is in part obliged to vary . A particular class of the Indians , for instance , hate the Mahometans , because they eat cows : the Mahometans detest the Indians , because they eat hogs f . This happens to be an excellent for both

religion , because it suits their climates and constitutions best . It was contrary to the Papian Law for a man of sixty to marry a woman of fifty . As they had given great privileges to married men , the law would not suffer them to enter into useless marriages . For the same reason the Calvisian Senatus Consulium declared the marriage of a woman . above fifty with a man less than sixty to be that of

unequal ; so a woman fifty years of age could not marry without incurring the penalties of these laws . Tiberius added to the rigour of the Papian Law , and prohibited men of sixty from marrying women under fifty ; so that a man of sixty could not marry in any case whatsoever , without incurring the penalty . But Claudius abrogated this Law made under Tiberius £ . All these

regulations were more conformable to the climate of Italy than to that of the North , where a man of sixty years of age has still a considerable degree of strength , and where women of fifty are not always past child-bearing . If an old couple have a mind to end their days happily together , though the marriage is a mere ceremony , God forbid I should attempt to prevent it . —Let them enjoy themselves and forget old age ; for we were never created to live miserable .

_ But where a man gives up bis existence , if I may use the expression , for the sake of marrying a rich old widow , 1 think such an one is beneath the character of an Englishman . —He must either give up all the happiness this world can afford to make her happy , or have the ingratitude § to treat her like a brute , and thereby cause her to end her old days in misery , in a reflection on past improprieties , a sincere repentance without a remed y , and all that anguish and misery a woman who has any feelings ( there being none of either sex but feel for themselves ) must feel on such an occasion , and whose only hopes rest in a future state j | .

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