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Masonic Didactics; Or, Short Moral Essays Of Universal Adaptation.
frequently proves the commotion of society , and the inquietude of our souls , filling the mind with restless phantasies , and destroying health of body with , too often , the peace of nations . But that which is pursued from benevolence of heart , capacity of intellect , and philanthropic views towards the benefit of mankind , is genuine in its nature , and productive of real greatness . Suchthenbeing the effects which ring to man himselfand the
, , sp , commonwealth at large , from two opposite motives of moral action , how requisite is it to guard against an abuse of honest fame , and an improper pursuit of it , by educating the mind in principles of a holier and loftier origin than the mere evanescent glory of human approbation and success , pointing to heaven as the laurel which shall crown our good works , and directing all its energies towards promoting and completing the unsearchable behests of the Great Architect of the Universe .
" Gloria ormvis Deo tribuenda , xion nobis . " No . XXVI . —ANGER BETRAYED BY THE FACE . Quamvis legatur proditur vultu furor . —SENECA . WHENEVER any malignant passion distorts the mind , those distortions generally are communicated to the beholder" through the muscles of the
face . Because the numerous membranes and minute arteries which compose that chief feature of the body , are so connected with the heart and brain , that any perturbed emotion in either of those faculties will powerfully influence the exterior parts . For the countenance has been considered by a curious physiognomist— " an index of the mind "—delineating with singular exactness the reigning desires of the soul . In conformation of which theory may be adduced the visible changes and
contortions that the different passions . of grief , anger , and joy produce upon the human visage . Indeed , that face divine is a fair and spotless page , whereon are written the traces of the imagination so legibly , that " he who runs may read . " Another ingenious writer asserts that the mind , in some degree , is always obvious in the face , and , that whatever passion takes possession of the mind for any considerable period , with that passion the countenance will be tinctured , even after the occasion of it has subsided ; for
" The mental storm each outward muscle shakes , And nerveless ev ' ry strong-knit sinew makes " Therefore , those who truly wish to give a dignified expression to that lively organ , and escape the rigid decisions of scrutinising external penetration , must assiduously cultivate those virtues which form the finest ornament of the human character . By imbibing a taste for polite literature , and cultivating the mind , eventually a sweetness of disposition is shed over the countenance , that aptly exemplifies Ovid ' s adage : — " Ingenuas didicisse fidelitcr artes , Emollit mores nee sinit esse fcros . "
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Masonic Didactics; Or, Short Moral Essays Of Universal Adaptation.
frequently proves the commotion of society , and the inquietude of our souls , filling the mind with restless phantasies , and destroying health of body with , too often , the peace of nations . But that which is pursued from benevolence of heart , capacity of intellect , and philanthropic views towards the benefit of mankind , is genuine in its nature , and productive of real greatness . Suchthenbeing the effects which ring to man himselfand the
, , sp , commonwealth at large , from two opposite motives of moral action , how requisite is it to guard against an abuse of honest fame , and an improper pursuit of it , by educating the mind in principles of a holier and loftier origin than the mere evanescent glory of human approbation and success , pointing to heaven as the laurel which shall crown our good works , and directing all its energies towards promoting and completing the unsearchable behests of the Great Architect of the Universe .
" Gloria ormvis Deo tribuenda , xion nobis . " No . XXVI . —ANGER BETRAYED BY THE FACE . Quamvis legatur proditur vultu furor . —SENECA . WHENEVER any malignant passion distorts the mind , those distortions generally are communicated to the beholder" through the muscles of the
face . Because the numerous membranes and minute arteries which compose that chief feature of the body , are so connected with the heart and brain , that any perturbed emotion in either of those faculties will powerfully influence the exterior parts . For the countenance has been considered by a curious physiognomist— " an index of the mind "—delineating with singular exactness the reigning desires of the soul . In conformation of which theory may be adduced the visible changes and
contortions that the different passions . of grief , anger , and joy produce upon the human visage . Indeed , that face divine is a fair and spotless page , whereon are written the traces of the imagination so legibly , that " he who runs may read . " Another ingenious writer asserts that the mind , in some degree , is always obvious in the face , and , that whatever passion takes possession of the mind for any considerable period , with that passion the countenance will be tinctured , even after the occasion of it has subsided ; for
" The mental storm each outward muscle shakes , And nerveless ev ' ry strong-knit sinew makes " Therefore , those who truly wish to give a dignified expression to that lively organ , and escape the rigid decisions of scrutinising external penetration , must assiduously cultivate those virtues which form the finest ornament of the human character . By imbibing a taste for polite literature , and cultivating the mind , eventually a sweetness of disposition is shed over the countenance , that aptly exemplifies Ovid ' s adage : — " Ingenuas didicisse fidelitcr artes , Emollit mores nee sinit esse fcros . "