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On Freemasonry.
ON FREEMASONRY .
ON THE UNIVERSALITY AND INFLUENCE OF FREEMASONRY .
BY THE REV . G . OLIVER , D . D . IN the present universal diffusion of Freemasonry , penetrating , as it has done , into the most obscure as well as the most civilized countries of the earth , and extending its influence amongst all ranks and degrees of mankind , it may
be equally useful and interesting to take a view of its introduction into the principal nations where its coursehas been marked by symptoms of decided success . In this inquiry , I would not be understood to confine myself to those abstract princip les which were avowedly practised in the early ages ofthe worldand propagated with more or less adulteration
; , by the migrating colonies from the p lain of Shinar ; but taking Freemasonry as i ! is at present modelled into a system , including the intimate union of its two main Speculative and Operative branches , I shall endeavour to trace its ori g in in civilized States , ancl notice the influence it has exerted towards improving the moral and scientific
institutions with which it has been connected . * We possess some faint glimmerings of the Order in this island during the time when Roman policy had taught our rude forefathers the blessings of civilization , and introduced amongst them a taste for the fine arts ; and our traditions that the Brethren held their Lodges regularlyand that
say , they were closed against all except the initiated ; but we have documentary evidence to prove that under Carausius it was systematically practised ; that he invested Albanus his steward with the dignity of G . M ., and presented him
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On Freemasonry.
ON FREEMASONRY .
ON THE UNIVERSALITY AND INFLUENCE OF FREEMASONRY .
BY THE REV . G . OLIVER , D . D . IN the present universal diffusion of Freemasonry , penetrating , as it has done , into the most obscure as well as the most civilized countries of the earth , and extending its influence amongst all ranks and degrees of mankind , it may
be equally useful and interesting to take a view of its introduction into the principal nations where its coursehas been marked by symptoms of decided success . In this inquiry , I would not be understood to confine myself to those abstract princip les which were avowedly practised in the early ages ofthe worldand propagated with more or less adulteration
; , by the migrating colonies from the p lain of Shinar ; but taking Freemasonry as i ! is at present modelled into a system , including the intimate union of its two main Speculative and Operative branches , I shall endeavour to trace its ori g in in civilized States , ancl notice the influence it has exerted towards improving the moral and scientific
institutions with which it has been connected . * We possess some faint glimmerings of the Order in this island during the time when Roman policy had taught our rude forefathers the blessings of civilization , and introduced amongst them a taste for the fine arts ; and our traditions that the Brethren held their Lodges regularlyand that
say , they were closed against all except the initiated ; but we have documentary evidence to prove that under Carausius it was systematically practised ; that he invested Albanus his steward with the dignity of G . M ., and presented him