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The Freemasons' Quarterlyreview,
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY REVIEW ,
AND GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE . * SECOND SERIES—JUNE 30 , 1848 .
NEXT to the unflinching maintenance of what has been advanced when its entire propriety can be upheld , comes the frank admission of error where any discrepancy may be discovered . The public writer who assumes to be infallible is the first whose wisdom and fidelity should be doubted . He may be right in principle , yet incorrect in its application—influenced by the purest motives , lie may be
carried away by his devotion to that principle beyond the limit of prudent expression—his premises may be good , his arguments may he sound , yet still his epithets may be otherwise . Thus satisfied of the imperfectibility of his own nature , he must be convinced , also , that there is as much true dignity in the atonement of an apparent offence as
in a successful justification of any position he may have assumed . And , under such impressions , we unhesitatingly state our regret that we should have been betrayed , by what is now a chastened disappointment , into the use of some expressions , in our last number , with reference to the conduct of the Grand Master , which may not , on due reflection , he thoroughly sustained . It did not become us to
admonish , in terms of disrespect , the elected leader of the Craft . In arraigning , his judgment , we should not have attributed to him the being actuated by unmasonic motives—nor did we intend to imply such motives , although the expressions used might bear the construction . We , therefore , fully and freely apologise to the Grand Master for whatever personally offensive sentences or words , directly or construc-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterlyreview,
THE FREEMASONS ' QUARTERLY REVIEW ,
AND GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE . * SECOND SERIES—JUNE 30 , 1848 .
NEXT to the unflinching maintenance of what has been advanced when its entire propriety can be upheld , comes the frank admission of error where any discrepancy may be discovered . The public writer who assumes to be infallible is the first whose wisdom and fidelity should be doubted . He may be right in principle , yet incorrect in its application—influenced by the purest motives , lie may be
carried away by his devotion to that principle beyond the limit of prudent expression—his premises may be good , his arguments may he sound , yet still his epithets may be otherwise . Thus satisfied of the imperfectibility of his own nature , he must be convinced , also , that there is as much true dignity in the atonement of an apparent offence as
in a successful justification of any position he may have assumed . And , under such impressions , we unhesitatingly state our regret that we should have been betrayed , by what is now a chastened disappointment , into the use of some expressions , in our last number , with reference to the conduct of the Grand Master , which may not , on due reflection , he thoroughly sustained . It did not become us to
admonish , in terms of disrespect , the elected leader of the Craft . In arraigning , his judgment , we should not have attributed to him the being actuated by unmasonic motives—nor did we intend to imply such motives , although the expressions used might bear the construction . We , therefore , fully and freely apologise to the Grand Master for whatever personally offensive sentences or words , directly or construc-