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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 6 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
The inadvertence of his deceased Royal Highness , on the 19 th of March , 1840 , when delivering his sentiments at a public meeting , in Freemasons' Hall , we have no doubt was occasioned by the accident of finding
himself surrounded b y the portraits of so many deceased Grand Masters ; and the thought of the " universality" of the order , led him to express himself erroneously in connection with the subject . His address was remarked upon , and he afterwards admitted that he had been
misunderstood , but thought he had been visited by " an exaggerated sense of propriety . " The Masonic events of the last three years render this reference , in some measure , necessary ; and in paying due honor to the great virtues of the deceased , a passing notice of a few mistakes will not sully their purity . Man is but man .
Let the tenor of the speeches of the illustrious deceased —whether in Parliament , when advocating the freedom of the slave , the emancipation from mental serfdom of the Catholic , the Dissenter , or the Jew , or announcing the declaration of his opinion as to his own family connexion with the throne
and the country—be remembered , and will it be conceived possible that , for the simple writing of the following sentences , —and observe , these were the only sentences that could , by any wily cunning of the few before alluded to , be made to appear offensive , and then only by avoiding to so
quote the preceding or the concluding paragraphs , —their author was cited to show cause why he should not be expelled Freemasonry ? Why , the very obnoxious sentiments were in such perfect accordance with the tenor of the royal Grand Master ' s own private opinions and publicly expressed
sentiments , that we consider it honorable to him , as to the individual Brother who endured much for their promulgation , to re-enter them here : —
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
The inadvertence of his deceased Royal Highness , on the 19 th of March , 1840 , when delivering his sentiments at a public meeting , in Freemasons' Hall , we have no doubt was occasioned by the accident of finding
himself surrounded b y the portraits of so many deceased Grand Masters ; and the thought of the " universality" of the order , led him to express himself erroneously in connection with the subject . His address was remarked upon , and he afterwards admitted that he had been
misunderstood , but thought he had been visited by " an exaggerated sense of propriety . " The Masonic events of the last three years render this reference , in some measure , necessary ; and in paying due honor to the great virtues of the deceased , a passing notice of a few mistakes will not sully their purity . Man is but man .
Let the tenor of the speeches of the illustrious deceased —whether in Parliament , when advocating the freedom of the slave , the emancipation from mental serfdom of the Catholic , the Dissenter , or the Jew , or announcing the declaration of his opinion as to his own family connexion with the throne
and the country—be remembered , and will it be conceived possible that , for the simple writing of the following sentences , —and observe , these were the only sentences that could , by any wily cunning of the few before alluded to , be made to appear offensive , and then only by avoiding to so
quote the preceding or the concluding paragraphs , —their author was cited to show cause why he should not be expelled Freemasonry ? Why , the very obnoxious sentiments were in such perfect accordance with the tenor of the royal Grand Master ' s own private opinions and publicly expressed
sentiments , that we consider it honorable to him , as to the individual Brother who endured much for their promulgation , to re-enter them here : —