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Masonic Didactics;
No .. XII . —ON THE WANT OF CANDOUR IN COURTS . ¦ ' Fraus sulilimi regnat in aula . "—SENECA . Witliin tlie princely hall , guile holds her sway—As well as in the cotter's house of clay . —AuTilon . DECEIT , or the " cunning craft of men , " has been properly , although quaintly , defined , by an eminent and learned moralist , to be a " sinister
or crooked wisdom . " Nor does it require any deep research into the works of philosophy , or rig id individual observation on " men and manners , " to convince the judgment of the propriety of that definition . It conveys a truth which the "" wise in their generation" are in the daily habit of acknowledging . However contemptible and debasing deceit may be wherever it is found , it isalas ! as frequent a sojourner under courtlroofsas beneath the
, y , rustic thatch . Ancl , though education ought to operate most powerfully in the former instance to correct so vile a principle , yet the very reverse is oftentimes its effect . Mankind are become so abject and disingenuous , that it seems compulsory to have recourse to mean artifices in the promotion of those ends which the employment of industry and probity ought solely to accomplish .
For the forcible illustration of the fatal effects which may result trom deceit , history relates , "that the Emperor Trajan , after a long war with Decebalus , King of the Dacians , who had often prevaricated and deceived bim , at last took him and subdued his kingdom , and after his death was educating the son with an intention , according to the Roman custom , of restoring to him his father ' s kingdom . But seeing him break into a garden at night , he asked him where he had been all the
afternoon ? The boy answered , " In School . " With which disengenuousness the Emperor was so offended , that all the intercession of the Dacians or Romans could never induce him to make good what he had intended for him ; always saying , that " he who began so early to prevaricate , could never deserve a crown . '' This , therefore , confirms the truth of the old adage , " that honesty is the best policy , ' ancl obliges all to confess , that " An honest man ' s thc not lest work of Clod . "—POPK . -ir evd 6 / . ievos ovSeiv \ avftdvci TTOKVV XfoVoi' .
Extract From Henry's History Of England.
EXTRACT FROM HENRY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
TO THE EDITOR . Sin AND BROTHER , —Observing among various writers many allusions to our Masonic Society . I have made several extracts , and forward the enclosed from the eig hth volume of Henry ' s History of England , p . 271 , et seq . Its insertion will oblige your faithful servant , J . \ t " As the sacred , civil , and military architecture of this period was towardthe
nearly in the same style with that which was introduced s end of the preceding period , and which hath been already described , it will not be necessary to dwell long on that subject in this place .- '
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Didactics;
No .. XII . —ON THE WANT OF CANDOUR IN COURTS . ¦ ' Fraus sulilimi regnat in aula . "—SENECA . Witliin tlie princely hall , guile holds her sway—As well as in the cotter's house of clay . —AuTilon . DECEIT , or the " cunning craft of men , " has been properly , although quaintly , defined , by an eminent and learned moralist , to be a " sinister
or crooked wisdom . " Nor does it require any deep research into the works of philosophy , or rig id individual observation on " men and manners , " to convince the judgment of the propriety of that definition . It conveys a truth which the "" wise in their generation" are in the daily habit of acknowledging . However contemptible and debasing deceit may be wherever it is found , it isalas ! as frequent a sojourner under courtlroofsas beneath the
, y , rustic thatch . Ancl , though education ought to operate most powerfully in the former instance to correct so vile a principle , yet the very reverse is oftentimes its effect . Mankind are become so abject and disingenuous , that it seems compulsory to have recourse to mean artifices in the promotion of those ends which the employment of industry and probity ought solely to accomplish .
For the forcible illustration of the fatal effects which may result trom deceit , history relates , "that the Emperor Trajan , after a long war with Decebalus , King of the Dacians , who had often prevaricated and deceived bim , at last took him and subdued his kingdom , and after his death was educating the son with an intention , according to the Roman custom , of restoring to him his father ' s kingdom . But seeing him break into a garden at night , he asked him where he had been all the
afternoon ? The boy answered , " In School . " With which disengenuousness the Emperor was so offended , that all the intercession of the Dacians or Romans could never induce him to make good what he had intended for him ; always saying , that " he who began so early to prevaricate , could never deserve a crown . '' This , therefore , confirms the truth of the old adage , " that honesty is the best policy , ' ancl obliges all to confess , that " An honest man ' s thc not lest work of Clod . "—POPK . -ir evd 6 / . ievos ovSeiv \ avftdvci TTOKVV XfoVoi' .
Extract From Henry's History Of England.
EXTRACT FROM HENRY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND .
TO THE EDITOR . Sin AND BROTHER , —Observing among various writers many allusions to our Masonic Society . I have made several extracts , and forward the enclosed from the eig hth volume of Henry ' s History of England , p . 271 , et seq . Its insertion will oblige your faithful servant , J . \ t " As the sacred , civil , and military architecture of this period was towardthe
nearly in the same style with that which was introduced s end of the preceding period , and which hath been already described , it will not be necessary to dwell long on that subject in this place .- '