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of Southern India , the Malay Peninsula , and the Indian and Pacific Archipelagos . Modern ethnologists regard these dialects as characteristic of what they call the . Turanian family . ( 3 . )

Inflecting , in which the prefixes and terminations which modify the meaning and relations of the principal root are welded with it into one word , having lost their radical character .

The inflectional languages are divided into two families , the Indo-European and the Semitic . ( 1 . ) The Indo-European , or Indn-Gernmnk languages are so named from the two extremities of

the chain in which they stretch from south-east to north-west , across Asia to Europe . They are sometimes also called Aryan , from the races which peopled Eastern Persia and Northern

India . The sacred language of India , the Sanscrit , stands first in the series . Next comes the ancient and modern languages of Persia , and the other countries in the table-land of Iran ; then those of Armenia and the Cauncasian

Isthmus ; whence the family spreads out over all Europe , to the shores of the North Sea and the Atlantic . ( 2 . ) The Semitic languages are so called , because the most conspicuous members of the family are those whose Semitic descent

is affirmed m Scripture ; the I febrews and Arabs , Syrians and Assyrians . These nations occupied , and for the most part , still occupy , the southwest corner of Asia , to the west of the

Indo-Gcrmanic zone ; pent in between the highlands of Armenia and Iran , on the east ; the Mediterranean and Red Sea , on the west , and the Gulf of Arabia , on the South .

. ' . As yet , comparative philology has not succeeded in establishing a distinct family of languages corresponding to the Ilamilie race ; and these languages are meanwhile classed as Sub-Semitic

Hence we have the division into ( J ) Semitic Proper , including Aram . van , Hebrew , Arabic , and Ethiopia ; and ( 2 ) Sub-Sewilie , including the Egyptian or Coptic , and , perhaps , the languages

of the ancient Libyans , still preserved by the Kabyles andTouargs of North Africa , and some tribes fhe L ' pper Nile . What has been said will show the striking

general agreement of the record in Genesis with the results of comparative philology . The Indo-European family corresponds to the Japhethite races , not only as far as the range included in

the biblical record ; but the extensions of the former are what might he expected from the latter . The range of the Semitic family proper is precisel y that assigned to Shemite races , with the addition

of Ethiopia , where , as in the . neighbouring parts of Arabia , they displaced the Cushiles ; while the more complicated relations of the Sub-Semitic languages are what we mi ght have expected from the movements of the llamites and Shemites .

The whole result is to divide the nations of the ancient world into two great groups , of which the one expanded and made more free and powerful the civilisation begun by the other .

The very names of Shem ( e . cullatian ) , and Japheth ( enlargement ) , are symbolical of those destinies of the races which were foretold in Noah ' s

prophecy , " God shall enlarge Japheth , and he shall dwell in the tabernacles ( inherit the power and high privileges ) of Shem . " The course of history establishes another broad division of the ancient nations into the

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Eastern and the Western ; the latter representing the free energy of the Indo-European races ; the former , not uninfluenced b y the same element , as contributed by the Aryan stock , absorbed it into

its own mass of immobility and deoptism . Thus the Median and Persian conquerors of the Babylonian empire , and , long afterwards , the Greek rulers of Egypt and Syria , conformed to the

Oriental type . The attentive reader of history will not fail to note the great distinction which marks the two different streams , and the two antagonistic principles of ancient history — the eastern and the western—the civilisation of the

Nile and the Euphrates , with the fixed principles of their great monarchies , and the higher civilisation , and noble , political , literary , and artistic life which grew up on the shores of the

Mediterranean , and were destined to cover the whole world . Our early study of , and sympathy with the latter , is , however , left imperfect , unless wc

are familiar with what the former did to prepare its way , so as to understand the full significance of the ultimate triumph of the West .

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CONSECRATION OF THE FRIENDS IN COUNCIL LODGE , No . 1383 .

Another gratifying and interesting event occurred at the New Hall , 33 , Golden-square , on Monday , the 3 rd inst ., which , like that which

took place on the 8 th tilt ., will not soon cease to be remembered by those brethren who participated in it , viz .: the constituting a new lodge , and installinsr the Earl of Carnarvon , as its first W . M .

There were present on the occasion , the following brethren - . —The Rt . Hon . the Earl of Carnarvon , Deputy Grand Master of England ; the Earl of Limerick , Prov . Grand Master for

Bristol ; Lord Lindsay , Past Grand Warden of England , and Prov . Grand Master for Aberdeen ; Ihe Rev . John Huyshe , Prov . Grand Master for Devon , and Past Grand Chaplain of England ;

Dr . Robert Hamilton , District Grand Master for Jamaica : W . W . Beach , Prov . Grand Master for Hants and Isle of Wight , etc . ; Chas . Hunter , Prov . Grand Master for Aberdeenshire East ,

Past Master 7 ¦¦; ¦ •; , England ; George Chatterton , No . 1 Ireland , and Deputy Prov . Grand Master for Minister ; Le Doeteur Verstraeten , P . M ., Bruxelles ; Rev . A . Bruce Frazer , Grand

Chaplain , and Prov . G . S . W . for Cambridge ; John Hervey , Grand Secretary ; J . B . Monckton , Grand Senior Deacon , P . M . 197 ; Col . A . W . Adair , Past Prov . Grand Master for Somerset :

Chas . f-lutton Gregory , Past Grand Deacon of England , P . M . 197 •Sir M . Costa , Past Grand Organist for England ; W . Hickman , Past Grand A . D . C . of England ; G . J . Vigne , Past S . G . W .

Somerset ; Capt . N . G . Philips , P . M . 311 , 333 , I . C . ; GeneralII . J . M . P . Montagu , Deputy Grand Master Dorset ; Hyde Pullen , Past Grand S . B . of England , and Past Deputy Prov . Grand Master Isle

of Wight ; S . Rawson , Past Prov . Grand Master for China ; Sir P . Mc C . de Colquhoun , P . M . 370 ; Rev . P . H . Newnham , Prov . Grand Chaplain

Hants , Past Prov . Grand Chaplain for Dorset ; C . A . Newnham , Past Prov . Grand Senior Warden Staffordshire , & c . ; Dr . F . H . Woodford , Past Prov Grand Senior Warden for Somerset ; E . D . Hamill , W . M ., 197 ; Henrv Gr . P . M .

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187 , S . W . 197 ; Chas . E . Hollingsworth , P . M . and Sec . 197 ; Gen . H . E . Doherty , Past Prov . Grand Senior Deacon for Somerset ; J . Glaisher , P . M . 33 ; R . Costa , P . M . 263 ;

G . Kenning , Prov . G . Deacon , Mid ' x , P . M . 192 ; J . MacGlashan , 354 , Jamaica ; Col . Guyon , P . G . S . B . Somerset ; John Read , P . M . 88 ; T . W . Boord . W . M . 222 ; Cap . W . PortlockDadson , 9 i 3 ;

Robert De Lacy , 114 ; C . J . Burgess , 429 , 1216 , & c . ; J . F . Starkey , S . W . 855 ; R . Spencer , P . M . and Treas . Grand Steward ' s Lodge ; J . Keregidge , G . T . Carter , 173 ; J ohn Hodges , 1319 , & c ,

1 he brethren being arranged , Bro . the Earl of Limerick took the chair by virtue , of dispensation from the M . W . G . M . the Marquis of Ripon , and appointed Bro . Hutton Gregory , P . M . of the

Jerusalem Lodge No . 197 , as S . W . pro . tern , and Bro . J . B . Monckton , also a P . M . of 197 , as J . . pro tern . —a graceful compliment being thus displayed to the J erusalem Lodge—the W . M .

( Bro . Gregory ) , Wardens and members of that lodge having recommended the petition of the Friends in Council Lodge , to the consideration

of the AI . W . G . M . The brethren of the new lodge were then introduced , bearing the consecrating elements , and arranged in their proper i ) l aces .

The Grand Secretary read the warrant , and the brethren of the new lodge having given their approval of the officers named in the warrant to preside over them , the Officiating Brother , the

Earl of Limerick , ' proceeded to constitute the brethren into a regular lodge , which was very efficiently and beautifull y done with appropriate honours and musical accompaniments .

As soon as the ceremony of consecration was completed , the Grand Secretary , Bro . J . Hervey presented the R . W . Bro . the Earl of Carnarvon , with a few truly kind and complimentary remarks .

as the W . M . designate for installation , who , after having duly given his assent to the ancient charges , and formally undertaken the duties of W . M . of fhe lodge , was invested , placed in his

chair in ancient and solemn form , and saluted accordingly . The W . M . requested Bro . C . J . Vigne to act as his P . M . for the year , who was invested with the collar of the office .

Ihe W . M . having been greeted and proclaimed in all regularity , was pleased to appoint the following brethren as his officers for the ensuing year : —Bros . Capt . N . G . Philips , S . W . ;

and Dr . R . Hamilton , J . W . J . Huyshe , who had acted as Chaplain during the ceremony of consecration with much solemnity , kindly received the collar of Chaplain for Bro . Rev . E . H .

H . Vernon . Sir M . Costa was invested as Treasurer ; Hyde Pullen was appointed and invested as Secretary ; Col . A . W . Adair , as S . D . ; Gen . H . Clerke , as J . D . ; J . M . P . Montagu , -

as I . G . ; Hyde Pullen undertook the additional duty of Director of Ceremonies ; John Read was appointed Organist . Bro . Hy de Pullen , who llad

acted as Director of the Ceremonies during the consecration and installation , then delivered the usual addresses with the imprcssiveness for which he . is so well known .

The W . M ., in kind and appropriate terms , then proposed as joining members to the Lodge the following brethren : —Sir P . Colquhoun , R . Costa , the Rev . E . II . H . Vernon , Major S . H . Clerke , the Earl of Limerick , Gen . H . G .