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On Freemasonry,
ON FREEMASONRY ,
A . S REGARDS ITS UNBOUNDED INFLUENCE ON THE MORAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION OF MAN . BY THE REV . GEORGE OLIVER , D . V .
EDITORIAL PRECOGNITION . "En fliite . " —MOLTERE . " The world is naturally averse To all the truth it sees or hears ; But swallows nonsense and a lie . With greediness and gluttony . And though it have the pique , and long , "Pis still for something in the wrong , As women long when they ' re with child , For things extravagant and wild , For meats ridiculous and fulsome , But seldom anything that ' s wholesome . "—BUTLER .
" Mus in pice . *'—LATIN PROVERB . " Qzpm Lzfjkgb wpdpkt , Rmjgb js zrtf fgpkt Mjkr bzbfe eqjd gtprk 1 "—DUNCKERLEY . [ We congratulate the fraternity on the re-appearance of our worthy and indefatigable friend , the doctor—after a long and lingering illness , in which his medical attendant prohibited him from using a pen or pencil , or even reading a dry scientific book . Being now somewhat recovered , the "
Freemasons' Quarterly Review" enjoys the first fruits of his convalescence . We have received a bundle of papers with the above title , which could not have made their appearance at a more acceptable time ; for they relieve ourselves of a duty which we were beginning to think incumbent on us , of showing mankind the tendency of Freemasonry to promote human happiness . For our glorious Order is not without adversaries , who are actively employed in endeavouring to obstruct its popularity , and by that means embarrass its charitable operations ; but their views are as hopeless as those of an unfortunate mouse , which , as our motto predicates , has vowed to demolish a barrel of tar .
The idea arose thus . A short time ago , as we wandered listlessly along Farringdon Street with the intention of passing into Holborn for a masonic gossip with " honest Richard Spencer , " and marking the stream of human beings which poured along the pavement with endless continuity— " the full tide , " as Johnson expresses it , " of human existence , " which he loved to contemplate—we were accosted by our friend B , a most uncompromising anti-Mason ; who , after the usual salutations , walked with us to the masonic library ; amusing himself by the way , with uttering the customary jests against
the Order , which we had heard too often to be at all affected by them ; and in the course of a short conversation we happened to remark that the world was indebted to the influence of Freemasonry for the superior polish which distinguishes the times in which we live . My friend , with an incredulous look , observed : " Why you surely do not mean to say that Masonry has had any part in producing the present high and flourishing state of morality which is the glory and boast of the British nation ? Your science has about as much to do with it as the building of an Indian pagoda had in deciding the battle of Bannockburn . " VOL . vi . J n
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On Freemasonry,
ON FREEMASONRY ,
A . S REGARDS ITS UNBOUNDED INFLUENCE ON THE MORAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION OF MAN . BY THE REV . GEORGE OLIVER , D . V .
EDITORIAL PRECOGNITION . "En fliite . " —MOLTERE . " The world is naturally averse To all the truth it sees or hears ; But swallows nonsense and a lie . With greediness and gluttony . And though it have the pique , and long , "Pis still for something in the wrong , As women long when they ' re with child , For things extravagant and wild , For meats ridiculous and fulsome , But seldom anything that ' s wholesome . "—BUTLER .
" Mus in pice . *'—LATIN PROVERB . " Qzpm Lzfjkgb wpdpkt , Rmjgb js zrtf fgpkt Mjkr bzbfe eqjd gtprk 1 "—DUNCKERLEY . [ We congratulate the fraternity on the re-appearance of our worthy and indefatigable friend , the doctor—after a long and lingering illness , in which his medical attendant prohibited him from using a pen or pencil , or even reading a dry scientific book . Being now somewhat recovered , the "
Freemasons' Quarterly Review" enjoys the first fruits of his convalescence . We have received a bundle of papers with the above title , which could not have made their appearance at a more acceptable time ; for they relieve ourselves of a duty which we were beginning to think incumbent on us , of showing mankind the tendency of Freemasonry to promote human happiness . For our glorious Order is not without adversaries , who are actively employed in endeavouring to obstruct its popularity , and by that means embarrass its charitable operations ; but their views are as hopeless as those of an unfortunate mouse , which , as our motto predicates , has vowed to demolish a barrel of tar .
The idea arose thus . A short time ago , as we wandered listlessly along Farringdon Street with the intention of passing into Holborn for a masonic gossip with " honest Richard Spencer , " and marking the stream of human beings which poured along the pavement with endless continuity— " the full tide , " as Johnson expresses it , " of human existence , " which he loved to contemplate—we were accosted by our friend B , a most uncompromising anti-Mason ; who , after the usual salutations , walked with us to the masonic library ; amusing himself by the way , with uttering the customary jests against
the Order , which we had heard too often to be at all affected by them ; and in the course of a short conversation we happened to remark that the world was indebted to the influence of Freemasonry for the superior polish which distinguishes the times in which we live . My friend , with an incredulous look , observed : " Why you surely do not mean to say that Masonry has had any part in producing the present high and flourishing state of morality which is the glory and boast of the British nation ? Your science has about as much to do with it as the building of an Indian pagoda had in deciding the battle of Bannockburn . " VOL . vi . J n