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On Freemasonry.
which still excite the attention ofthe traveller . It does not appear that the Romans made any progress in buildin <> - till after Scipio Asiaticus had deprived the " King of Syria of all his dominions west of Mount Taurus . Then it was they first became acquainted with the beauties of Grecian architectureand beheld with astonishment the productions of
, taste , grandeur , and simplicity . But if that extraordinary nation wasted five or six centuries of their existence in a succession of wars , they afterwards cultivated the mysteries of the Craft with a zeal which obtained a merited success . To the three Orders derived from Greece and the Tuscan from their neihboursthe Romans added the Composite
g , or Roman Order ; but even in their most flourishing pej * iod , from the reign of Augustus to Constantine , we look in vain for that purity of taste and simplicity of design which attracts our admiration in the unrivalled architecture of the Greeks , who never seem to have forgotten that they were building for posterity .
The northern nations of Europe , the Goths , the Vandels , and Huns , as Rome declined became numerous and powerful ; and at last , bursting like a destroying torrent from their impenetrable holds , overran the fairest provinces of the empire , and -finally , Italy itself , destroying with ruthless brutality the finest monuments of arts and "
architecture , and involving the western empire in the most gross and profound ignorance . The Mahometans , at no very distant period , completed the destruction of the eastern empire , the Goths soon becoming converts to Christianity ; and being ignorant of the simplest rules of the Craft , either converted the Roman basilicas into churches , or erected after the
new ones models of such as had been built in the latter ages of the empire ; slight change therefore in the style of architecture took place during their government , the learned have long been satisfied that the tei-m Gothic has been improperly applied to a style of building which originated at a period subsequent to their existence as a nationThe order
. that prevailed in Italy during the power of the Goths was the debased Roman . The restorers of the Grecian Order in Italy , and the admirers of Palladio and Inigo Jones , with a view to degrade the beautiful edifices between the earl y part of the twelfth , and the end of the fifteenth centuries , stigmatized them all with the name of Gothic ; and hence the ' common error , whatever may be the classical beauty of the Greek school , it is
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On Freemasonry.
which still excite the attention ofthe traveller . It does not appear that the Romans made any progress in buildin <> - till after Scipio Asiaticus had deprived the " King of Syria of all his dominions west of Mount Taurus . Then it was they first became acquainted with the beauties of Grecian architectureand beheld with astonishment the productions of
, taste , grandeur , and simplicity . But if that extraordinary nation wasted five or six centuries of their existence in a succession of wars , they afterwards cultivated the mysteries of the Craft with a zeal which obtained a merited success . To the three Orders derived from Greece and the Tuscan from their neihboursthe Romans added the Composite
g , or Roman Order ; but even in their most flourishing pej * iod , from the reign of Augustus to Constantine , we look in vain for that purity of taste and simplicity of design which attracts our admiration in the unrivalled architecture of the Greeks , who never seem to have forgotten that they were building for posterity .
The northern nations of Europe , the Goths , the Vandels , and Huns , as Rome declined became numerous and powerful ; and at last , bursting like a destroying torrent from their impenetrable holds , overran the fairest provinces of the empire , and -finally , Italy itself , destroying with ruthless brutality the finest monuments of arts and "
architecture , and involving the western empire in the most gross and profound ignorance . The Mahometans , at no very distant period , completed the destruction of the eastern empire , the Goths soon becoming converts to Christianity ; and being ignorant of the simplest rules of the Craft , either converted the Roman basilicas into churches , or erected after the
new ones models of such as had been built in the latter ages of the empire ; slight change therefore in the style of architecture took place during their government , the learned have long been satisfied that the tei-m Gothic has been improperly applied to a style of building which originated at a period subsequent to their existence as a nationThe order
. that prevailed in Italy during the power of the Goths was the debased Roman . The restorers of the Grecian Order in Italy , and the admirers of Palladio and Inigo Jones , with a view to degrade the beautiful edifices between the earl y part of the twelfth , and the end of the fifteenth centuries , stigmatized them all with the name of Gothic ; and hence the ' common error , whatever may be the classical beauty of the Greek school , it is