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The Revelations Of A Square.
that Dr . Anderson had spoiled his trade , and that no one UOAV gave him credit for veracity . He had confessed himself to be a perjured man ; and it proved fatal to his reputation . From being a Avhale among the minnows , he dwindled into a minnoAv among the whales ; and having once sunk into contempt and insignificance , he was heard
of no more . " Dr . Anderson ' s Defence Avas followed by an anonymous work , called " the Beginning and First Foundation of the most Avorthy Craft of Freemasonry , " published in 1739 ; and a French writer , whose book Avas translated info English , although not very complimentary to the Order in
general , admits that ' the prince and the magistrate here lose nothing of that homage due from their inferiors . Nothing is banished but discord and quarrelling , which , if one moment raises , the next extinguishes , and this principle of union and society Avith which each Brother is impressed , becomes the principle of peace and quietness , AA-hich he preserves without any alteration until the time when he is required to throAV it off , only for the purpose of renderingit more universal and more durable . What I have just said
of the calmness and tranquillity which reigns in the Order of Freemasons will , without doubt , appear to some an incomprehensible paradox ; but I will proceed , and their surprise will increase , when they know that this union is carried to such a pitch , that if two Masons , without knowing each other , should quarrel and fight with the SAvord , —upon
an intimation that they were both Masons , the fury and rage which before animated the combatants , would in an instant give p lace to the most sincere reconciliation , and the most tender friendship ; and this , if any signs should escape either of them , so that his adversary should only suspect him to be a member of the same Order Avith himself ,
his anger would instantly cease , and upon an explanation , a thousand embraces and expressions of regard would quench the boiling fury , which but a moment before had consigned one or both to sure destruction . ' " The Book of Constitutions becoming scarce in the year 1737 Dr . Andersonwho had assisted in the former work
, , , prayed for the favour of reprinting it , with the transactions ofthe Society down to the year 1738 . This being complied with , and the copy delivered to him , the management of it at the press Avas left to the Doctor . The manuscript being approved , the folloAving Resolution Avas unanimously agreed to :
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The Revelations Of A Square.
that Dr . Anderson had spoiled his trade , and that no one UOAV gave him credit for veracity . He had confessed himself to be a perjured man ; and it proved fatal to his reputation . From being a Avhale among the minnows , he dwindled into a minnoAv among the whales ; and having once sunk into contempt and insignificance , he was heard
of no more . " Dr . Anderson ' s Defence Avas followed by an anonymous work , called " the Beginning and First Foundation of the most Avorthy Craft of Freemasonry , " published in 1739 ; and a French writer , whose book Avas translated info English , although not very complimentary to the Order in
general , admits that ' the prince and the magistrate here lose nothing of that homage due from their inferiors . Nothing is banished but discord and quarrelling , which , if one moment raises , the next extinguishes , and this principle of union and society Avith which each Brother is impressed , becomes the principle of peace and quietness , AA-hich he preserves without any alteration until the time when he is required to throAV it off , only for the purpose of renderingit more universal and more durable . What I have just said
of the calmness and tranquillity which reigns in the Order of Freemasons will , without doubt , appear to some an incomprehensible paradox ; but I will proceed , and their surprise will increase , when they know that this union is carried to such a pitch , that if two Masons , without knowing each other , should quarrel and fight with the SAvord , —upon
an intimation that they were both Masons , the fury and rage which before animated the combatants , would in an instant give p lace to the most sincere reconciliation , and the most tender friendship ; and this , if any signs should escape either of them , so that his adversary should only suspect him to be a member of the same Order Avith himself ,
his anger would instantly cease , and upon an explanation , a thousand embraces and expressions of regard would quench the boiling fury , which but a moment before had consigned one or both to sure destruction . ' " The Book of Constitutions becoming scarce in the year 1737 Dr . Andersonwho had assisted in the former work
, , , prayed for the favour of reprinting it , with the transactions ofthe Society down to the year 1738 . This being complied with , and the copy delivered to him , the management of it at the press Avas left to the Doctor . The manuscript being approved , the folloAving Resolution Avas unanimously agreed to :