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Glasgow Masonics.
by length of lime or change of place , leaving the beautiful amplifications and instructive symbolisms involved in the preparations , ritual , and implements of the Craft to be enlarged upon during the intervals between the respective degrees . The antiquity , scope , universality , and influence of the association are shortly adverted to ; correctness of general conduct and charity of disposition are inculcated , and strict propriety of languagein and out of the loclgeriidly enforced—any laxithi this
, , g y respect being pronounced altogether inexcusable , alike unmasonic and ungentlemanly . In discussing literary and scientific subjects at the regular monthly communications , this lodge only follows up the practice of the old times , when these Fraternities were the principal seminaries of useful knowledge , and the promoters and encourager of scientific discovery ; while they at the same time inculcated the obligations of a stern and unbending morality , and the practice of every social ancl Christian
virtue . * The topics engaging the attention of the members during the season which has just ended , embraced a wide field—architecture , the fine arts , astronomy , antiquities , and general literature . The last of the monthly meetings was occupied with an able dissertation on Italian- literature , by Bro . Assalari , one of our most popular and successful professors of modern languages—a sufferer , we believe , both in Italy ancl Spain for his connection with Freemasonry . The subject , in itself an interestingone , must have peculiar attractions for a native of Italy , recalling as it does the cherished triumphs of his fatherland , which , in the language of one of its most enthusiastic admirers ,
" Was the mightiest in its old command And is the loveliest ; and must ever he T ! ie Master mould of Nature ' s heavenly hand , Wherein were east the heroic ancl the free , Tiie beautiful , the brave , the lords of earth and sea . "
Endowed by nature with a physique unsurpassed by that of any other nation in the world ; ancl not less happy in a corresponding morale , while , more inclined by their natural taste to the cultivation of music , poetry , and the fine arts , and tempted by the seductive languor of their lovely clime to the luxuriant indulgence of "doloe far niente , " the Italians have , nevertheless , from the resistless stirrings of the divinity within them , eminently distinguished themselves in every department of science and of literatureas well as in musicpaintingarchitecture
, , , , and sculpture ; and , amid all their sufferings ancl all their wrongs , they find an abiding consolation and encouragement in the former triumphs of their literature , and in the beauty of their liquid labial language , so surpassingly lovely that it secures a favourable prepossession for whatever it expresses , and , when employed as the interpreter of tbe affections , is irresistibly effective . When the irruption of northern barbarism had utterly extinguished the light of science , and covered the fairest
portion of the earth ' s surface with a moral night of more than Egyptian darkness , it was from the rays of Italian genius that the sacred flame was rekindled , ancl again shed its genial beams over that favoured land , attracting to its colleges and schools the students of every clime . To Italy we are indebted for some of the most important discoveries in science . To the penetrating intellect of the hapless Florentine , the persecuted Galileo , we owe that instrument which , even in its rude and imperfect origin , revealed the changing phases of the planet Venus , discovered the satellites of Jupiter , and confirmed the doctrines of the obscure Polish
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Glasgow Masonics.
by length of lime or change of place , leaving the beautiful amplifications and instructive symbolisms involved in the preparations , ritual , and implements of the Craft to be enlarged upon during the intervals between the respective degrees . The antiquity , scope , universality , and influence of the association are shortly adverted to ; correctness of general conduct and charity of disposition are inculcated , and strict propriety of languagein and out of the loclgeriidly enforced—any laxithi this
, , g y respect being pronounced altogether inexcusable , alike unmasonic and ungentlemanly . In discussing literary and scientific subjects at the regular monthly communications , this lodge only follows up the practice of the old times , when these Fraternities were the principal seminaries of useful knowledge , and the promoters and encourager of scientific discovery ; while they at the same time inculcated the obligations of a stern and unbending morality , and the practice of every social ancl Christian
virtue . * The topics engaging the attention of the members during the season which has just ended , embraced a wide field—architecture , the fine arts , astronomy , antiquities , and general literature . The last of the monthly meetings was occupied with an able dissertation on Italian- literature , by Bro . Assalari , one of our most popular and successful professors of modern languages—a sufferer , we believe , both in Italy ancl Spain for his connection with Freemasonry . The subject , in itself an interestingone , must have peculiar attractions for a native of Italy , recalling as it does the cherished triumphs of his fatherland , which , in the language of one of its most enthusiastic admirers ,
" Was the mightiest in its old command And is the loveliest ; and must ever he T ! ie Master mould of Nature ' s heavenly hand , Wherein were east the heroic ancl the free , Tiie beautiful , the brave , the lords of earth and sea . "
Endowed by nature with a physique unsurpassed by that of any other nation in the world ; ancl not less happy in a corresponding morale , while , more inclined by their natural taste to the cultivation of music , poetry , and the fine arts , and tempted by the seductive languor of their lovely clime to the luxuriant indulgence of "doloe far niente , " the Italians have , nevertheless , from the resistless stirrings of the divinity within them , eminently distinguished themselves in every department of science and of literatureas well as in musicpaintingarchitecture
, , , , and sculpture ; and , amid all their sufferings ancl all their wrongs , they find an abiding consolation and encouragement in the former triumphs of their literature , and in the beauty of their liquid labial language , so surpassingly lovely that it secures a favourable prepossession for whatever it expresses , and , when employed as the interpreter of tbe affections , is irresistibly effective . When the irruption of northern barbarism had utterly extinguished the light of science , and covered the fairest
portion of the earth ' s surface with a moral night of more than Egyptian darkness , it was from the rays of Italian genius that the sacred flame was rekindled , ancl again shed its genial beams over that favoured land , attracting to its colleges and schools the students of every clime . To Italy we are indebted for some of the most important discoveries in science . To the penetrating intellect of the hapless Florentine , the persecuted Galileo , we owe that instrument which , even in its rude and imperfect origin , revealed the changing phases of the planet Venus , discovered the satellites of Jupiter , and confirmed the doctrines of the obscure Polish