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Article ON FREEMASONRY. EVIDENCES, DOCTRINES, AND TRADITIONS. ← Page 14 of 14 Article EVIL SPEAKING. Page 1 of 1
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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
the flames in his dotage ( for he must have been more than 100 years old when he committed this rash act ) , would have thrown considerable li ght on this interesting subject ; for it is not to be believed that the manuscri pts would have been consigned to such a fate if they had contained nothing but architectural disquisitions , or charges and laws of Masonry . It
may , perhaps , be thought that I have been too diffuse on this point ; but in an article on the doctrines and practices of Masonry , it was impossible to avoid a discussion of this abstruse subject , which puzzled the acute Locke ; because , though Freemasonry , as now practised , never introduces it into its disquisitions makes the slihtest
, or g allusion to it in any of its comprehensive lectures , the Brethren might be desirous of some extended information on a topic which Dr . Anderson , and after him , Hutchinson , j ^ ston , and other Masonic writers , have considered of sufficient importance to merit their serious consideration .
Evil Speaking.
EVIL SPEAKING .
" The delusive itch for slander , too common in all ranks of people , whether to gratify a little ungenerous resentment ; whether , oftener , out of a princi ple of levelling , from a narrowness and poverty of soul , ever impatient of merit and superiority in others . * * * To plunder an innocent man of his character and good name , a jewel which , perhaps , he has starved himself to
purchase , and probably would hazard his life to secure ; to rob him , at the same time , of his happiness and peace of mind , perhaps his bread—the bread , may be , of a virtuous famil y . * * * priclej treachery , hypocrisy , malice , cruelty , and self-love , may been Sadin ne shape or other to have occasioned
nu ' ' ° ' all the frauds and mischiefs that ever happened in the world ; but the chances against a coincidence of them all in one person are so many , that one would have supposed the character of a common slanderer as rare a production in nature as that of a great genius , which seldom happens more than once in an age . "
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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
the flames in his dotage ( for he must have been more than 100 years old when he committed this rash act ) , would have thrown considerable li ght on this interesting subject ; for it is not to be believed that the manuscri pts would have been consigned to such a fate if they had contained nothing but architectural disquisitions , or charges and laws of Masonry . It
may , perhaps , be thought that I have been too diffuse on this point ; but in an article on the doctrines and practices of Masonry , it was impossible to avoid a discussion of this abstruse subject , which puzzled the acute Locke ; because , though Freemasonry , as now practised , never introduces it into its disquisitions makes the slihtest
, or g allusion to it in any of its comprehensive lectures , the Brethren might be desirous of some extended information on a topic which Dr . Anderson , and after him , Hutchinson , j ^ ston , and other Masonic writers , have considered of sufficient importance to merit their serious consideration .
Evil Speaking.
EVIL SPEAKING .
" The delusive itch for slander , too common in all ranks of people , whether to gratify a little ungenerous resentment ; whether , oftener , out of a princi ple of levelling , from a narrowness and poverty of soul , ever impatient of merit and superiority in others . * * * To plunder an innocent man of his character and good name , a jewel which , perhaps , he has starved himself to
purchase , and probably would hazard his life to secure ; to rob him , at the same time , of his happiness and peace of mind , perhaps his bread—the bread , may be , of a virtuous famil y . * * * priclej treachery , hypocrisy , malice , cruelty , and self-love , may been Sadin ne shape or other to have occasioned
nu ' ' ° ' all the frauds and mischiefs that ever happened in the world ; but the chances against a coincidence of them all in one person are so many , that one would have supposed the character of a common slanderer as rare a production in nature as that of a great genius , which seldom happens more than once in an age . "