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The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
them in force , hoivever absurd and preposterous those decrees may be , —and hoivever distinctly and positively the march of improvement has shown them to be alike false , illiberal , and contradictory . Her claim—vain and foolish though it be—to infallibility , and her adhesion to that delusion , have
placed her in a myriad of difficulties ; but rather than give up this hold upon the minds of a few of her deluded votaries , she will sacrifice truth upon the altar of falsehood , and attempt to drain its life-blood , by acts only tending to her OAvn inevitable and final destruction .
In vain did Galileo plead , tAvo centuries ago , for the truth of those mighty mysteries he had discovered : the telescope had opened to his enlightened mind the courses
of the stars , and the rolling of the planets in their Heavenappointed orbits ; he had detected the laAv of falling bodies , and showed that the spaces described Avere proportional to the squares of the times ; he had studied Avith success the subject of the composition of forces ; and demonstrated
those remarkable propositions , which lie at the very base of all mechanical philosophy . He had used the appliances , which Masonry can adapt to the investigation of every subject , and traversed the heavens by means of the instrumentality it afforded him . After days of watching and nights of
careful research , he pronounced , Avith infallible precision , that the moon , like the earth , had an uneven surface , and that the Copernican system was irrefragably true . Ignorance and superstition could meet discoveries so vast as these by the only resource adapted to their purposespersecution . Twice did the blind and furious bigotry of
" That false faith , whose meteor smile illumes , La Trappe ' s cold cells , and Nubia ' s peopled tombs , " charge Galileo ivith heresy , and twice did it deliver him over to the tender mercies of the Inquisition , to wring from
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
them in force , hoivever absurd and preposterous those decrees may be , —and hoivever distinctly and positively the march of improvement has shown them to be alike false , illiberal , and contradictory . Her claim—vain and foolish though it be—to infallibility , and her adhesion to that delusion , have
placed her in a myriad of difficulties ; but rather than give up this hold upon the minds of a few of her deluded votaries , she will sacrifice truth upon the altar of falsehood , and attempt to drain its life-blood , by acts only tending to her OAvn inevitable and final destruction .
In vain did Galileo plead , tAvo centuries ago , for the truth of those mighty mysteries he had discovered : the telescope had opened to his enlightened mind the courses
of the stars , and the rolling of the planets in their Heavenappointed orbits ; he had detected the laAv of falling bodies , and showed that the spaces described Avere proportional to the squares of the times ; he had studied Avith success the subject of the composition of forces ; and demonstrated
those remarkable propositions , which lie at the very base of all mechanical philosophy . He had used the appliances , which Masonry can adapt to the investigation of every subject , and traversed the heavens by means of the instrumentality it afforded him . After days of watching and nights of
careful research , he pronounced , Avith infallible precision , that the moon , like the earth , had an uneven surface , and that the Copernican system was irrefragably true . Ignorance and superstition could meet discoveries so vast as these by the only resource adapted to their purposespersecution . Twice did the blind and furious bigotry of
" That false faith , whose meteor smile illumes , La Trappe ' s cold cells , and Nubia ' s peopled tombs , " charge Galileo ivith heresy , and twice did it deliver him over to the tender mercies of the Inquisition , to wring from