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The Freemasons' Repository.
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY .
HTHOTJGH we cannot subscribe to the propriety of publishing , or - " - of g iving credit to the many strange and improbable , ( we had almost been induced to say ridiculous ) assertions which characterize the principal part of a learned Professor ' s late publication , we think it justice to pronounce , that the work contains many excellent observations and passages , which do honour to the head and to the heart of the Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Under
these impressions , and the supposition that the work may not have undergone the perusal of many of our numerous friends , it is our purpose occasionally to select such passages as have particularly attracted attention , and induced us to hope that the insertion in our monthly miscellany may meet with the approbation of our ' various readers . A warmth of zeal for the support of the character of Real
Masonry unimpeached , we understand , induced some worthy members of the Grand Lodge of England to cause the work above alluded to , tobe there taken into consideration , when all the Brethren present signified their strong disapprobation and abhorrence of such practices , and expressed a manly and firm confidence that their Sovereign and their Country had no occasion to be publicly assured
ofthe iinabated and steady attachment of the Brethren to their King and Government ; pronounced the work incapable of injuring the real professors of Masonry , and totally inapplicable to the Grand Lodge of England , or any Lodge under its constitution . The proposition for the consideration of the work by the Grand Lodge consequently passed by sub silentio .
INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE WORK—TJFON THE ART OF BUILDING , AND THE PROFESSORS OF THE ART . ' THERE is undoubtedly a dignity in the art of building , or in architecture , which no other art possesses ; and this , whether we consider it in its rudest stateoccupied in raising a hutor as practised in a
, , cultivated nation , in the erection of a magnificent and ornamented temple . As the arts in general improve in any nation , this must always maintain its pre-eminence ; for it employs them all , and no man can be eminent as an architect who does not possess a considerable knowledge of almost every science and art already cultivated in his nation . His great works are undertakings of the most serious
concern , connect him with the public , or with the rulers of the state , and attach to him the practitioners of other arts , who are occupied in executing his orders : his works are theobjects of public attention , and are not the transient spectacles of the day , but hand down to posterity his invention , his knowledge , and his taste . ' It is not at all surprising , therefore , that the incorporated architects in all cultivated nations should arrogate to themselves a preeminence over the similar associations of other- tradesmen . A \ find traces of this in the remotest antiquity . The Dionysiacs of Asia
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The Freemasons' Repository.
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY .
HTHOTJGH we cannot subscribe to the propriety of publishing , or - " - of g iving credit to the many strange and improbable , ( we had almost been induced to say ridiculous ) assertions which characterize the principal part of a learned Professor ' s late publication , we think it justice to pronounce , that the work contains many excellent observations and passages , which do honour to the head and to the heart of the Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Under
these impressions , and the supposition that the work may not have undergone the perusal of many of our numerous friends , it is our purpose occasionally to select such passages as have particularly attracted attention , and induced us to hope that the insertion in our monthly miscellany may meet with the approbation of our ' various readers . A warmth of zeal for the support of the character of Real
Masonry unimpeached , we understand , induced some worthy members of the Grand Lodge of England to cause the work above alluded to , tobe there taken into consideration , when all the Brethren present signified their strong disapprobation and abhorrence of such practices , and expressed a manly and firm confidence that their Sovereign and their Country had no occasion to be publicly assured
ofthe iinabated and steady attachment of the Brethren to their King and Government ; pronounced the work incapable of injuring the real professors of Masonry , and totally inapplicable to the Grand Lodge of England , or any Lodge under its constitution . The proposition for the consideration of the work by the Grand Lodge consequently passed by sub silentio .
INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE WORK—TJFON THE ART OF BUILDING , AND THE PROFESSORS OF THE ART . ' THERE is undoubtedly a dignity in the art of building , or in architecture , which no other art possesses ; and this , whether we consider it in its rudest stateoccupied in raising a hutor as practised in a
, , cultivated nation , in the erection of a magnificent and ornamented temple . As the arts in general improve in any nation , this must always maintain its pre-eminence ; for it employs them all , and no man can be eminent as an architect who does not possess a considerable knowledge of almost every science and art already cultivated in his nation . His great works are undertakings of the most serious
concern , connect him with the public , or with the rulers of the state , and attach to him the practitioners of other arts , who are occupied in executing his orders : his works are theobjects of public attention , and are not the transient spectacles of the day , but hand down to posterity his invention , his knowledge , and his taste . ' It is not at all surprising , therefore , that the incorporated architects in all cultivated nations should arrogate to themselves a preeminence over the similar associations of other- tradesmen . A \ find traces of this in the remotest antiquity . The Dionysiacs of Asia