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Puzzles.
whether it is so , or whether is was written by Dormoft , there is a puzzle about it . Instead of the ( fraud Master ' s name being spelt Blessington , it is on all the three instruments spelt " lilesiuton . " The iptcstion here conies , did either tho
Irish Earl Grand Master , or tho Irish Grand Secretary of the London Yorkers , make an Irish blunder in tho spelling of the ( . fraud Master ' s name ? or was the Grand Lodge of tho Ancients doubly blessed , with a Grand Master Blessington , and a Grand Master Blesinton ? Boston , U . S ., Jan . 28 th , 1874 .
Reviews.
Reviews .
An Kiieijelopa'dia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences , ij-c . By Albert C . G . Muckey , M . D . Moss & Go ., Philadelphia . Geo . Kenning , 298 , Fleet Street , London , E . G . Wa live in an age of great mental energy
and scientific research . _ ^ It has been said , though wc know not if truly , that the multifariousness of our present studies , and the tendency to take in a wide field of general knowledge , which mark these present times , are lowering the " status" of privatoandparticularscholarshi p amoimst us all .
This may bo so , though wc confess that wo do not yet ourselves believe it , and though inclined to be " laudatorcs tempoi'is acfci , " wc feel that " vixere fortes ante Agamemnona , " and that whatever may have been tht ; scholarship of tho past , we have
many good scholars amongst us still . Do not let ns either check any tendency to a general study and knowledge of things , either because we think that we are generalizing too much our " curriculum " of school or college education or because
, wc cl \ ov > sc to propound once again that patent fallacy "that a little learning is a dangerous thing . " A little learning is better than no learning tit aff , just as " half a loaf is better than none . ''
But leaving behind us , let us hope , this exploded and vulgar prejudice , let us congratulate ourselves to-day , that , on every side of us , not onl y is the schoolmaster now happily abroad , hut the scholars give many and evident proofs that
they have profited greatly by the education imparted to them . It is not therefore a wonderful thing in itself , that amid this general move , intellectual Freemasonry has shared in the process of development and criticism , and study , and illumination .
At the close of the last century , and at the beginning of this , some Gorman students were zealously labouring , to throw life and vitality into th . ) "dryhones" of our wellknown legends arid traditions , and to enlighten the "Dryasdusts" of our good Masonic fraternitv .
The labours of Anderson , and Preston , and Hutchinson had , howcver , sullicedforthe Graft historically in this country , while Ashe and Dunkerley , and Callcoft had given the keynote to our mystical and speculative teaching .
Oliver carried on this two-fold literature for our Order until a very recent period . . But the German School , which has had in truth three epochs , the early and limited school which took a mystical high grade view of matters ; the abler school , which
traced back Freemasonry through the Guilds to Roman Colleges , and even further , and the later School , of which J . Findel is the ablest exponent , which restricts tho history of Freemasonry to that of the medieval guilds , and our present Freemasonry to the speculative development in 1717 , has made great progress in Masonic criticism .
In England three Schools mainly erpially have presented themselves . The first is that now that all but extinct class of writers , who claim for Freemasonry a Templar or a Rose Croix Origin . The second is that critical and earnest
School which , with someslightmodification of opinion on some minor points , agrees in this , to look on our Freemasonry to-day as the successor and product of the operative Guilds , with a special development in 1717 , and which includes among its " alumni" D . M . Lyon , W . J . Hughan , A . F . A . Woodford , and formerly E . W . Shaw .
There is a third School which , however , is not numerous , which looks upon Freemasonry as the mere creation of 1717 . One remarkable feature in this movement has been the critical study of ancient documents . Some have oven called it tho " iconoclastic , " though without any reason or warrant .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Puzzles.
whether it is so , or whether is was written by Dormoft , there is a puzzle about it . Instead of the ( fraud Master ' s name being spelt Blessington , it is on all the three instruments spelt " lilesiuton . " The iptcstion here conies , did either tho
Irish Earl Grand Master , or tho Irish Grand Secretary of the London Yorkers , make an Irish blunder in tho spelling of the ( . fraud Master ' s name ? or was the Grand Lodge of tho Ancients doubly blessed , with a Grand Master Blessington , and a Grand Master Blesinton ? Boston , U . S ., Jan . 28 th , 1874 .
Reviews.
Reviews .
An Kiieijelopa'dia of Freemasonry and its Kindred Sciences , ij-c . By Albert C . G . Muckey , M . D . Moss & Go ., Philadelphia . Geo . Kenning , 298 , Fleet Street , London , E . G . Wa live in an age of great mental energy
and scientific research . _ ^ It has been said , though wc know not if truly , that the multifariousness of our present studies , and the tendency to take in a wide field of general knowledge , which mark these present times , are lowering the " status" of privatoandparticularscholarshi p amoimst us all .
This may bo so , though wc confess that wo do not yet ourselves believe it , and though inclined to be " laudatorcs tempoi'is acfci , " wc feel that " vixere fortes ante Agamemnona , " and that whatever may have been tht ; scholarship of tho past , we have
many good scholars amongst us still . Do not let ns either check any tendency to a general study and knowledge of things , either because we think that we are generalizing too much our " curriculum " of school or college education or because
, wc cl \ ov > sc to propound once again that patent fallacy "that a little learning is a dangerous thing . " A little learning is better than no learning tit aff , just as " half a loaf is better than none . ''
But leaving behind us , let us hope , this exploded and vulgar prejudice , let us congratulate ourselves to-day , that , on every side of us , not onl y is the schoolmaster now happily abroad , hut the scholars give many and evident proofs that
they have profited greatly by the education imparted to them . It is not therefore a wonderful thing in itself , that amid this general move , intellectual Freemasonry has shared in the process of development and criticism , and study , and illumination .
At the close of the last century , and at the beginning of this , some Gorman students were zealously labouring , to throw life and vitality into th . ) "dryhones" of our wellknown legends arid traditions , and to enlighten the "Dryasdusts" of our good Masonic fraternitv .
The labours of Anderson , and Preston , and Hutchinson had , howcver , sullicedforthe Graft historically in this country , while Ashe and Dunkerley , and Callcoft had given the keynote to our mystical and speculative teaching .
Oliver carried on this two-fold literature for our Order until a very recent period . . But the German School , which has had in truth three epochs , the early and limited school which took a mystical high grade view of matters ; the abler school , which
traced back Freemasonry through the Guilds to Roman Colleges , and even further , and the later School , of which J . Findel is the ablest exponent , which restricts tho history of Freemasonry to that of the medieval guilds , and our present Freemasonry to the speculative development in 1717 , has made great progress in Masonic criticism .
In England three Schools mainly erpially have presented themselves . The first is that now that all but extinct class of writers , who claim for Freemasonry a Templar or a Rose Croix Origin . The second is that critical and earnest
School which , with someslightmodification of opinion on some minor points , agrees in this , to look on our Freemasonry to-day as the successor and product of the operative Guilds , with a special development in 1717 , and which includes among its " alumni" D . M . Lyon , W . J . Hughan , A . F . A . Woodford , and formerly E . W . Shaw .
There is a third School which , however , is not numerous , which looks upon Freemasonry as the mere creation of 1717 . One remarkable feature in this movement has been the critical study of ancient documents . Some have oven called it tho " iconoclastic , " though without any reason or warrant .