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of benevolence , had never been put info action . Where the different classes of men in society have distinct views and interests , their selfishness will shortly bieak their connection and pride , and consequent insolence , as shortly banish every principle oT respect and good-will . Equality may then exist in name , but not in reality . Give me , however , the reverse of the picture . Masonry has ever
cherished order , subordination , and true respect for rank and distinction in society as the rea \ practical principles of Freedom . Principles not reducible to practice , untried and unapproved , have been always foreign to its purposes . It was well observed by Aristotle , that the introduction of the arts served to excite the hoarding principle ; ( J £ PU /*« « T ««)) and that industry , genius , and paternal authority , when rendered subservient to the views of avarice , rapidly converted subordination into slavery .
In the East , the cradle of the human race , the place where arts and science first attained perfection , where learning , moral and theological , first flourished , do we behold Masonry shining in meridian splendour ; but when slavery had once acquired the ascendant , we view her pursuing the course of the sun , till in the western world the influence of her principles had secured her a hospitable retreat , even
among uncivilized barbarians . Since that period have not Egypt , Syria , and proud Babylon , deprived of her fostering care , exhibited - melancholy examples of civilization retarded , industry enervated , and the . progress of human ingenuity totally impeded ? Have not pride , luxury , and licentiousness reared their standards , till the unrestrained powers of gratification have produced a dissoluteness of manners , and
left society in a state worse than barbarism ? The votaries of S LAVERY experience no law but force : and how can they be expected to act according to any other ? Masonry is the avowed enemy of shivery , because she is and ' ever will be the enemy of man and of society . B . ' MASONICUS .
Opinions Concerning Masonry. With The Character Op A True Freemason.
OPINIONS CONCERNING MASONRY . WITH THE CHARACTER OP A TRUE FREEMASON .
FROM A FREEEMASON ' S CALENDAR FOR . 1793 ; PUBLISHED AT NEW YORK , BY THE HON . SAMUUL STIiARNS , L . L . D . SOME have supposed that Freemasonry is the way to Heaven , others that it is the road to Hell . A clergyman informed me in London , that on a day when I walked in a grand procession in that cityhe saw a widow woman all in tearswho said , ' she wished her
, , husband had been a Freemason , for if he had been one , she would have been provided for ; but now , she was left with nothing to ' subsist on . ' Another lady affirmed to me , that she had rather follow her hus-
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of benevolence , had never been put info action . Where the different classes of men in society have distinct views and interests , their selfishness will shortly bieak their connection and pride , and consequent insolence , as shortly banish every principle oT respect and good-will . Equality may then exist in name , but not in reality . Give me , however , the reverse of the picture . Masonry has ever
cherished order , subordination , and true respect for rank and distinction in society as the rea \ practical principles of Freedom . Principles not reducible to practice , untried and unapproved , have been always foreign to its purposes . It was well observed by Aristotle , that the introduction of the arts served to excite the hoarding principle ; ( J £ PU /*« « T ««)) and that industry , genius , and paternal authority , when rendered subservient to the views of avarice , rapidly converted subordination into slavery .
In the East , the cradle of the human race , the place where arts and science first attained perfection , where learning , moral and theological , first flourished , do we behold Masonry shining in meridian splendour ; but when slavery had once acquired the ascendant , we view her pursuing the course of the sun , till in the western world the influence of her principles had secured her a hospitable retreat , even
among uncivilized barbarians . Since that period have not Egypt , Syria , and proud Babylon , deprived of her fostering care , exhibited - melancholy examples of civilization retarded , industry enervated , and the . progress of human ingenuity totally impeded ? Have not pride , luxury , and licentiousness reared their standards , till the unrestrained powers of gratification have produced a dissoluteness of manners , and
left society in a state worse than barbarism ? The votaries of S LAVERY experience no law but force : and how can they be expected to act according to any other ? Masonry is the avowed enemy of shivery , because she is and ' ever will be the enemy of man and of society . B . ' MASONICUS .
Opinions Concerning Masonry. With The Character Op A True Freemason.
OPINIONS CONCERNING MASONRY . WITH THE CHARACTER OP A TRUE FREEMASON .
FROM A FREEEMASON ' S CALENDAR FOR . 1793 ; PUBLISHED AT NEW YORK , BY THE HON . SAMUUL STIiARNS , L . L . D . SOME have supposed that Freemasonry is the way to Heaven , others that it is the road to Hell . A clergyman informed me in London , that on a day when I walked in a grand procession in that cityhe saw a widow woman all in tearswho said , ' she wished her
, , husband had been a Freemason , for if he had been one , she would have been provided for ; but now , she was left with nothing to ' subsist on . ' Another lady affirmed to me , that she had rather follow her hus-