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Extract From The Preceding Rules.
• Haste to his assistance . Guide the erring . Offer thy hand , to lift up the fallen , and let not the sun . set before thou art reconciled with thy brother . It is only by unanimity'that our labour , can prosper . IX .
BE faithful in fulfilling all obligations in which thou hast engaged as a Freemason . Revere-and obey thy superiors , for-they speak in the . name of the law . Keep always in sight the obligation of secrecy ; shouldst thou ever violate it , thou wouldst find the torturer in thy heart , and-become the horror of all thy Brethren .
Select Papers On Various Subjects, Read Before A Literary Society In London.
SELECT PAPERS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS , READ BEFORE A LITERARY SOCIETY IN LONDON .
No . IV . THE NATURE OF SENSIBILITY , AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MANKIND , CONSIDERED
BY . MR . T . PEDDER
"OERHAPS there is not a word in the whole English vocabulary . Jj . that has caused more altercation than this of Sensibility , nor has it proved a source of less affectation ; while affectation , in this as in all other case ' s , has only been the betrayer of ignorance . Some , being unable to account for it on rational principles , have called it ( though very prettily ) a sixth sense ; others have ascribed it to the immediate influence of the Deity ; while a third setand by far the most
nu-, merous , have discovered it to arise from a peculiarity of constitution ; and though the signification of it has been limited by them to little more than a disposition to S 3 * mpatliize with the afliicted , and though they allow that where it exists it may be improved ; yet do" they unanimously agree , that when nature has not been so bountiful as to bestow it on us at our birth , all attempts to acquire it will be
equally ineffectual . I shall hot for a moment be suspected of alluding to . philosophers in the above description ; as-1 can produce nothing worthy the attention of that denomination of men ,. 1 pursue an humbler track , content if my first essay be suffered by them to pass without contempt . Hitherto my observations have reference to two classes of people , either of which , as it is , I fear , far more numerous than that of pbilo-VOL . III . 3 D - -
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Extract From The Preceding Rules.
• Haste to his assistance . Guide the erring . Offer thy hand , to lift up the fallen , and let not the sun . set before thou art reconciled with thy brother . It is only by unanimity'that our labour , can prosper . IX .
BE faithful in fulfilling all obligations in which thou hast engaged as a Freemason . Revere-and obey thy superiors , for-they speak in the . name of the law . Keep always in sight the obligation of secrecy ; shouldst thou ever violate it , thou wouldst find the torturer in thy heart , and-become the horror of all thy Brethren .
Select Papers On Various Subjects, Read Before A Literary Society In London.
SELECT PAPERS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS , READ BEFORE A LITERARY SOCIETY IN LONDON .
No . IV . THE NATURE OF SENSIBILITY , AND ITS INFLUENCE ON MANKIND , CONSIDERED
BY . MR . T . PEDDER
"OERHAPS there is not a word in the whole English vocabulary . Jj . that has caused more altercation than this of Sensibility , nor has it proved a source of less affectation ; while affectation , in this as in all other case ' s , has only been the betrayer of ignorance . Some , being unable to account for it on rational principles , have called it ( though very prettily ) a sixth sense ; others have ascribed it to the immediate influence of the Deity ; while a third setand by far the most
nu-, merous , have discovered it to arise from a peculiarity of constitution ; and though the signification of it has been limited by them to little more than a disposition to S 3 * mpatliize with the afliicted , and though they allow that where it exists it may be improved ; yet do" they unanimously agree , that when nature has not been so bountiful as to bestow it on us at our birth , all attempts to acquire it will be
equally ineffectual . I shall hot for a moment be suspected of alluding to . philosophers in the above description ; as-1 can produce nothing worthy the attention of that denomination of men ,. 1 pursue an humbler track , content if my first essay be suffered by them to pass without contempt . Hitherto my observations have reference to two classes of people , either of which , as it is , I fear , far more numerous than that of pbilo-VOL . III . 3 D - -