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in the Royal Art , it remains with me now to finish our ivork . " He then gave three knocks on the stone , and said , " May this undertaking be conducted and completed by the Craftsmen according to the Grand Plan , in Peace , Love , and Harmony , "—the music thereafter jilaying " tin , my dear Brethren , " during which the cornucopia and cujis , with the wine and oil , were given to the Sub-Grand Master , the Senior and Junior Grand Wardens . These tbey delivered to the Grand Masterin
, turn , who spread the corn , the wine , and the oil on the stone , and pronounced the G rand Benediction— " May corn , wine , and oil , and all the necessaries of life , abound among men throughout the world , and may the blessing of the Supreme Grand Architect of the Universe be upon this undertaking , and may it be preserved to the latest ages , in order that it may promote the views for which this monument is to be erected . " The band then played the " Mason ' s Anthem , " and the Grand Master
returned to the platform . The music having ceased , The Lord Provost said—Principal Macfarlane and gentlemen , we have performed an act ivhich , while it honours the dead , at the same time honours the living . By erecting a monument to departed genius we leave to our posterity a tangible proof that the generations among whom Sir AValter Scott lived were in so far worth y of him that they could appreciate his merits . AVe have been doing what more perhaps than any other act , helps society forward in the road of social improvement . Every monument erected to a great and good man is an ever fresh moral
lesson to the public . ( Cheers . ) We have been doing what tends to cement society—in all that concerns men—in the matters of public and domestic life—in the certainties of this world and the hopes of the next . ( Loud cheers . ) There are , and in our nature there ever must be , a diversity of opinions and affections . Experience seems to teach that in the society where these are most freely exjiressed—where men most freely emulate each other in endeavours to promote their favourite views
—the greatest discoveries are made , and the greatest actions are performed . But rivalry and emulation alienate men and cultivate the less amiable passions . ( Great ajijilause . ) It is good , therefore , to seize on all those occasions which can re-unite us in that love ivhich is one of the best attributes of our nature ; and what occasion can there be so well fitted for this purpose as when men of every creed and every opinion which divide society , unite in common homage to the memory of some
distinguished fellow-citizen . Their common admiration teaches them that , liowever widel y tbey may differ , tbey still have one common nature , and that their points of resemblance form exactly what is noblest about them . There could not be a mind more admirably constituted for producing this desirable effect than that of the great man whose memory we meet to honour . Those of his works which will live with the nation ' s language are not controversial , stirring up strife ; they are pictures of
life , around which all men gather , to derive enjoyment . Their distinguished features arc the power of noting and exjiressing the peculiarities of character , as well as the fertility of invention . AVe , from whose firesides—from the livina . inmates of whose domestic circles his characters
were drawn—can feel ami attest their identity with nature . AVe have sat at table with—we have shaken hands with—we have quarrelled and been friends with—his Dandie Dinmonts , his Cuddie Headriggs , and last , though not least , his Bailie Nicol Jarvics . There can be no testimony to the truth of his portraits so strong and credible as ours . But . it is from those less familiar with his prototypes that testimony must bo
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in the Royal Art , it remains with me now to finish our ivork . " He then gave three knocks on the stone , and said , " May this undertaking be conducted and completed by the Craftsmen according to the Grand Plan , in Peace , Love , and Harmony , "—the music thereafter jilaying " tin , my dear Brethren , " during which the cornucopia and cujis , with the wine and oil , were given to the Sub-Grand Master , the Senior and Junior Grand Wardens . These tbey delivered to the Grand Masterin
, turn , who spread the corn , the wine , and the oil on the stone , and pronounced the G rand Benediction— " May corn , wine , and oil , and all the necessaries of life , abound among men throughout the world , and may the blessing of the Supreme Grand Architect of the Universe be upon this undertaking , and may it be preserved to the latest ages , in order that it may promote the views for which this monument is to be erected . " The band then played the " Mason ' s Anthem , " and the Grand Master
returned to the platform . The music having ceased , The Lord Provost said—Principal Macfarlane and gentlemen , we have performed an act ivhich , while it honours the dead , at the same time honours the living . By erecting a monument to departed genius we leave to our posterity a tangible proof that the generations among whom Sir AValter Scott lived were in so far worth y of him that they could appreciate his merits . AVe have been doing what more perhaps than any other act , helps society forward in the road of social improvement . Every monument erected to a great and good man is an ever fresh moral
lesson to the public . ( Cheers . ) We have been doing what tends to cement society—in all that concerns men—in the matters of public and domestic life—in the certainties of this world and the hopes of the next . ( Loud cheers . ) There are , and in our nature there ever must be , a diversity of opinions and affections . Experience seems to teach that in the society where these are most freely exjiressed—where men most freely emulate each other in endeavours to promote their favourite views
—the greatest discoveries are made , and the greatest actions are performed . But rivalry and emulation alienate men and cultivate the less amiable passions . ( Great ajijilause . ) It is good , therefore , to seize on all those occasions which can re-unite us in that love ivhich is one of the best attributes of our nature ; and what occasion can there be so well fitted for this purpose as when men of every creed and every opinion which divide society , unite in common homage to the memory of some
distinguished fellow-citizen . Their common admiration teaches them that , liowever widel y tbey may differ , tbey still have one common nature , and that their points of resemblance form exactly what is noblest about them . There could not be a mind more admirably constituted for producing this desirable effect than that of the great man whose memory we meet to honour . Those of his works which will live with the nation ' s language are not controversial , stirring up strife ; they are pictures of
life , around which all men gather , to derive enjoyment . Their distinguished features arc the power of noting and exjiressing the peculiarities of character , as well as the fertility of invention . AVe , from whose firesides—from the livina . inmates of whose domestic circles his characters
were drawn—can feel ami attest their identity with nature . AVe have sat at table with—we have shaken hands with—we have quarrelled and been friends with—his Dandie Dinmonts , his Cuddie Headriggs , and last , though not least , his Bailie Nicol Jarvics . There can be no testimony to the truth of his portraits so strong and credible as ours . But . it is from those less familiar with his prototypes that testimony must bo