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Article THE FREEMASONS' LEXICON. ← Page 6 of 6 Article THE SCAMANDRIAN SPRINGS. Page 1 of 2 →
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The Freemasons' Lexicon.
monly erected in commemoration of some celebrated person or remarkable event . They are to be found among the Masonic emblems . Obereit , Jacob Herrman , was born at Arbon , in Switzerland , the 2 nd December , 1725 , and died at Jena , 2 nd February , 1798 . He was a doctor in philosophy , surgeon , chemist , alchemist , & c . & c , without any diplomas . His head was formed by nature for speculation and acute investigationand having been induced binteicourseexample
, y , , and reading , to have a firm faith awakened and supported in him in all that was wonderful and extraordinary , caused him to devote himself incessantly to the search for the philosopher ' s stone , and drew him into a mystical Masonic union . It is not possible to determine whether he ever was really a Freemason or not , nevertheless he has written upon it , upon rosicrucianism , Jesuitism , mysticism , alchemy , and had many literary controversies upon those subjects .
The Scamandrian Springs.
THE SCAMANDRIAN SPRINGS .
HORACE somewhere says , or sings , that even great Homer sometimes is found nodding . He does not , however , condescend to particulars . Not so with the author of the " Gallery of Nature , " a popular and i-ecently published work , who pronounces prompt and positive judgment in the following special case : — " Homer , " says he , in the chapter upon springs , " in describing the flight of Hector before Achilles , attributes to the Scamander two
fountain heads , the one hot and the other cold : * Next by germander's double souree they bound , Where two famed fountains burst the parted ground . ' POPE . Homer is wrong in assigning such a source to this particular river , which bursts at once from a chasm in the Idsan mountains , amid scenery of the grandest description . "
This is pretty authoritatively pronounced ; but let us inquire if Homer does really assign such a source as these fountains to the river . He tells us that Hector and Achilles in their course " reached the fair-flowing fountains ( or out-gushings ) where two springs burst forth from the whirling Scamander , " and these , he subsequently says , were collected into stone troughs or reservoirs , in which the Trojan maidens washed
their clothes . He does not call them " Scamander s double source , as Pope gratuitously designates them : he speaks not of sources at all relative to the Scamander , but simply of two springs , with their out-pourings that bubbled and trickled into the whirling eddies of the river . Such appears to be the true interpretation of the expression , because Homer himself , iu Iliad xii . ver . 19 , distinctly states , that the Scamander , along with other rivers , rose in mount Ida , a fact which the critic forgets to statebut which could be the onlauthentic source of his own knowled
, y ge of the river ' s origin ; as at the present day it is almost impossible to identify any particular river in the Troad . Pope , in the licence he too frequently takes with the text , has led many a one astray unaware ; but the reverend author of the " Gallery of Nature . " as a scholar , ought to have been more cautious . Cowper , a
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Lexicon.
monly erected in commemoration of some celebrated person or remarkable event . They are to be found among the Masonic emblems . Obereit , Jacob Herrman , was born at Arbon , in Switzerland , the 2 nd December , 1725 , and died at Jena , 2 nd February , 1798 . He was a doctor in philosophy , surgeon , chemist , alchemist , & c . & c , without any diplomas . His head was formed by nature for speculation and acute investigationand having been induced binteicourseexample
, y , , and reading , to have a firm faith awakened and supported in him in all that was wonderful and extraordinary , caused him to devote himself incessantly to the search for the philosopher ' s stone , and drew him into a mystical Masonic union . It is not possible to determine whether he ever was really a Freemason or not , nevertheless he has written upon it , upon rosicrucianism , Jesuitism , mysticism , alchemy , and had many literary controversies upon those subjects .
The Scamandrian Springs.
THE SCAMANDRIAN SPRINGS .
HORACE somewhere says , or sings , that even great Homer sometimes is found nodding . He does not , however , condescend to particulars . Not so with the author of the " Gallery of Nature , " a popular and i-ecently published work , who pronounces prompt and positive judgment in the following special case : — " Homer , " says he , in the chapter upon springs , " in describing the flight of Hector before Achilles , attributes to the Scamander two
fountain heads , the one hot and the other cold : * Next by germander's double souree they bound , Where two famed fountains burst the parted ground . ' POPE . Homer is wrong in assigning such a source to this particular river , which bursts at once from a chasm in the Idsan mountains , amid scenery of the grandest description . "
This is pretty authoritatively pronounced ; but let us inquire if Homer does really assign such a source as these fountains to the river . He tells us that Hector and Achilles in their course " reached the fair-flowing fountains ( or out-gushings ) where two springs burst forth from the whirling Scamander , " and these , he subsequently says , were collected into stone troughs or reservoirs , in which the Trojan maidens washed
their clothes . He does not call them " Scamander s double source , as Pope gratuitously designates them : he speaks not of sources at all relative to the Scamander , but simply of two springs , with their out-pourings that bubbled and trickled into the whirling eddies of the river . Such appears to be the true interpretation of the expression , because Homer himself , iu Iliad xii . ver . 19 , distinctly states , that the Scamander , along with other rivers , rose in mount Ida , a fact which the critic forgets to statebut which could be the onlauthentic source of his own knowled
, y ge of the river ' s origin ; as at the present day it is almost impossible to identify any particular river in the Troad . Pope , in the licence he too frequently takes with the text , has led many a one astray unaware ; but the reverend author of the " Gallery of Nature . " as a scholar , ought to have been more cautious . Cowper , a