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United Grand Lodge Of Free And Accepted Masons Of England.
office was . Bro . S . powerfully and statistically prefaced the motion , shewing the desirableness of possessing the means of cultivating intellectuality more than gastronomy ; that the other bottle did not half so much good as the other volume ; that it was laughable to tell a poor but enquiring Brother to make a daily advar . ee in Masonic knowledge , and the arts or sciences his particular study , if we withheld from him the means of doing so , and did not even give him a hint where Masonic
knowledge could he gathered . We had . even this ypar carefully taken cut all allusion to a library from the calendar published by Grand Lodge , though small blame for that which only misled ; he was first told there was a library , then there was not ; but if there was , why could not any one see it ? if there was not , why had the Library Committee expended , very recently , several pounds upon it ? He did not hope for the support of General Officers , for they all voted one way upon all occasions . Even when he brought this forward before , there were but two honourable exceptions . Bro . Scarborough ' s address was very pointed and conclusive .
Bro . CRVCKFIX saw in this a good beginning ; it was a finger-post to the right direction , and showed the road to better things . Light would break in upon them if this subject were properly treated , and facilities given for improving themselves in Masonic lore . He was glad to see that probable justice would ultimately be done to the great principles many years since advanced by Bro . Henderson on this subject , whose public services should never be forgotten . Bro . DOBIE considered the whole motion ridiculous . To think of
founding or continuing a library eleven hours a day , buying books , and all other expenses , for the sum of twenty pounds a year ! Where were the books ? not in English , and but few in any continental language . Hespoke two of them , and had read books printed in them ; but they bothered one much more than they enlightened , and after going only half through any of them , the reader would find himself bewildered in trash . Who was to attend to ihe duties of librarian , and how was he to be recompensed ? and when all that was donewho would come and read the
, hooks ? and when they had , what good would they do them ? Bro . LANE . —Tastes and habits had taught him thrice the number of languages spoken by the Grand Registrar , he had therefore the advantage of being enabled to read and comprehend more books than that Brother , and could assure him he had derived pleasure and instruction from that source of Masonic knowledge . Those who knew anything of the continent , knew that large collections of books existed in Masonic
societies there , and that many very valuable works were in this country , which the library , if established , might some day hope to possess . He had collected several rare and costly works on Masonry , valuable even in the places where they were published and best known , from their scarcity ; these he intended to present if the library were established and carried on under regulations that were satisfactory to him . Bro . Scarboroughin his excellent openinghad alluded to several purchases
, , made by the Library Committee ; one through the agency of Bro . Crucefix , of a manuscript for twenty-five pounds . He could assure those who had not seen it , that it was a truly curious and important document , and one the British Museum would be very glad to possess . He spoke of it of his own knowledge , as the manuscript had been in his hands before it was offered by Bro . Crucefix .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
United Grand Lodge Of Free And Accepted Masons Of England.
office was . Bro . S . powerfully and statistically prefaced the motion , shewing the desirableness of possessing the means of cultivating intellectuality more than gastronomy ; that the other bottle did not half so much good as the other volume ; that it was laughable to tell a poor but enquiring Brother to make a daily advar . ee in Masonic knowledge , and the arts or sciences his particular study , if we withheld from him the means of doing so , and did not even give him a hint where Masonic
knowledge could he gathered . We had . even this ypar carefully taken cut all allusion to a library from the calendar published by Grand Lodge , though small blame for that which only misled ; he was first told there was a library , then there was not ; but if there was , why could not any one see it ? if there was not , why had the Library Committee expended , very recently , several pounds upon it ? He did not hope for the support of General Officers , for they all voted one way upon all occasions . Even when he brought this forward before , there were but two honourable exceptions . Bro . Scarborough ' s address was very pointed and conclusive .
Bro . CRVCKFIX saw in this a good beginning ; it was a finger-post to the right direction , and showed the road to better things . Light would break in upon them if this subject were properly treated , and facilities given for improving themselves in Masonic lore . He was glad to see that probable justice would ultimately be done to the great principles many years since advanced by Bro . Henderson on this subject , whose public services should never be forgotten . Bro . DOBIE considered the whole motion ridiculous . To think of
founding or continuing a library eleven hours a day , buying books , and all other expenses , for the sum of twenty pounds a year ! Where were the books ? not in English , and but few in any continental language . Hespoke two of them , and had read books printed in them ; but they bothered one much more than they enlightened , and after going only half through any of them , the reader would find himself bewildered in trash . Who was to attend to ihe duties of librarian , and how was he to be recompensed ? and when all that was donewho would come and read the
, hooks ? and when they had , what good would they do them ? Bro . LANE . —Tastes and habits had taught him thrice the number of languages spoken by the Grand Registrar , he had therefore the advantage of being enabled to read and comprehend more books than that Brother , and could assure him he had derived pleasure and instruction from that source of Masonic knowledge . Those who knew anything of the continent , knew that large collections of books existed in Masonic
societies there , and that many very valuable works were in this country , which the library , if established , might some day hope to possess . He had collected several rare and costly works on Masonry , valuable even in the places where they were published and best known , from their scarcity ; these he intended to present if the library were established and carried on under regulations that were satisfactory to him . Bro . Scarboroughin his excellent openinghad alluded to several purchases
, , made by the Library Committee ; one through the agency of Bro . Crucefix , of a manuscript for twenty-five pounds . He could assure those who had not seen it , that it was a truly curious and important document , and one the British Museum would be very glad to possess . He spoke of it of his own knowledge , as the manuscript had been in his hands before it was offered by Bro . Crucefix .