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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 5 of 8 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
Masonic character , the world will soon decide the question , and the Mason will sigh as " He hears On all sides , from innumerable tongues , A dismal universal hiss—the sound Of public scorn . "
What would he thought of the phlegmatic nation of Holland , if it were to pass a law to remove any one of the vast protective defences against the irruption of the ocean ? The nation itself , relying on the integrity of its rulers , might agree to any wild proposition , but what would surrounding nations think of such madness ? With what grief would those Dutchmen who , sojourned in other countries , sighing for
a return to their fatherland , learn that they had no longer a home for thought—that it had been delivered over to the ruthless sea , and was no more ! Freemasons beware ! The Hollanders of old , by moral power and physical industry , gained , with the aid of Providence , a kingdom from the sea . Your ancestors modified , by the aid of Providence , a
magnificent system of moral ethics , for the instruction of all time . We may instance a singular coincidence in the opinion of His Grace the Duke of Wellington . In the Morning Chronicle of the 29 th November , there appeared a letter , signed " F , " on the subject of our means of national defence in the event of sudden war ; the letter alludes to the opinion of the Duke , who , as the writer states , demands only certain easy
points of defence and security , —but the following earnest apostrophe by the Duke is most pointed : "lam now bordering on my seventy-seven years of age , passed in honour , —I hope the Almighty may protect me from being a WITNESS OF THE TRAGEDY I CANNOT PERSUADE MY CONTEMPORARIES TO AVERT . " The Duke is a Freemason ; he points out the dangers of the
futurelet us profit by the lesson , and not suffer a mine to be sprung in our very sight , and which , if it explode , will be the prelude to the downfall of Freemasonry in England . We most earnestly implore our readers to examine for themselves the arguments employed for and against the resolution , and then to
" Look on this picture and on that . A passing remark may be made on the great inconsistency of many members in the Grand Lodge , some of whom , when differing in their views from those of the Grand Master , introduce their observations with so many expressions of regret and even fulsome adulation towards his lordship as must , we feel certain , create any feeling but that of
satisfaction , In a fair debate this is not only unnecessary but misplaced . Rochefaucault was of opinion that " to praise princes for virtues which they have not , is to reproach them with impunity . " '•' ¦ '" '
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
Masonic character , the world will soon decide the question , and the Mason will sigh as " He hears On all sides , from innumerable tongues , A dismal universal hiss—the sound Of public scorn . "
What would he thought of the phlegmatic nation of Holland , if it were to pass a law to remove any one of the vast protective defences against the irruption of the ocean ? The nation itself , relying on the integrity of its rulers , might agree to any wild proposition , but what would surrounding nations think of such madness ? With what grief would those Dutchmen who , sojourned in other countries , sighing for
a return to their fatherland , learn that they had no longer a home for thought—that it had been delivered over to the ruthless sea , and was no more ! Freemasons beware ! The Hollanders of old , by moral power and physical industry , gained , with the aid of Providence , a kingdom from the sea . Your ancestors modified , by the aid of Providence , a
magnificent system of moral ethics , for the instruction of all time . We may instance a singular coincidence in the opinion of His Grace the Duke of Wellington . In the Morning Chronicle of the 29 th November , there appeared a letter , signed " F , " on the subject of our means of national defence in the event of sudden war ; the letter alludes to the opinion of the Duke , who , as the writer states , demands only certain easy
points of defence and security , —but the following earnest apostrophe by the Duke is most pointed : "lam now bordering on my seventy-seven years of age , passed in honour , —I hope the Almighty may protect me from being a WITNESS OF THE TRAGEDY I CANNOT PERSUADE MY CONTEMPORARIES TO AVERT . " The Duke is a Freemason ; he points out the dangers of the
futurelet us profit by the lesson , and not suffer a mine to be sprung in our very sight , and which , if it explode , will be the prelude to the downfall of Freemasonry in England . We most earnestly implore our readers to examine for themselves the arguments employed for and against the resolution , and then to
" Look on this picture and on that . A passing remark may be made on the great inconsistency of many members in the Grand Lodge , some of whom , when differing in their views from those of the Grand Master , introduce their observations with so many expressions of regret and even fulsome adulation towards his lordship as must , we feel certain , create any feeling but that of
satisfaction , In a fair debate this is not only unnecessary but misplaced . Rochefaucault was of opinion that " to praise princes for virtues which they have not , is to reproach them with impunity . " '•' ¦ '" '