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Grand Lodge of England , and also to support a Grand Lodge . This applies only to Upper Canada , as we have in the lower provinces two more E . G . Lodges to support , and the inroad this makes upon our funds , often necessitates the refusal of relief to Brethren in distress ^ from actual want of funds .
The appointment of our P . G . M . by the Grand Lodge of England operates most seriously to our disadvantage : our present P . G . M . of Upper Canada exhibits a perfect indifference to the interests of Masonry , attending no Lodges , grand or subordinate , and only occasionally appearing at public ceremonies , leaving all his duties to be performed by his deputy .
I need not point out how different will be our position now we elect our own G . M . I trust the perusal of the Address will secure the Grand Lodge of Canada the advantage of your attendance and support when the
question comes before the consideration of the Grand Lodge of [ England , and , ! assure you , your countenance was never requested in a more righteous cause . I am , my dear Sir and Brother , Tours truly and-fraternally , W . L . So
The Coggin Subscription . —Though we regret the necessity of a subscription being entered into for the assistance of Bro . Coggin , who for upwards of thirty years has been most assiduous in attending to the comfort of the visitors to the Freemason ' ^ Tavern , —we cannot do otherwise than call upon the Brethren to assist in the good work . Bro . Coggin has , towards the close of life , from unforeseen causes , left the Tavern straightened in his ' circumstances , and a little help may enable him to pass his remaining years in comparative comfort . Who that knows the man will withhold it ? We feel sure not one .
The Vendetta . —Not to take revenge is considered by the genuine Corsican as degrading . Thirst for vengeance is , with them , an entirely natural sentiment ; a passion that has become hallowed . In their songs revenge has a cultus , and is celebrated . as a religion of filial piety . Now a sentiment which the poetry of a people has adopted as an essential characteristic of the nationality is ineradicable ; and this in the highest degree , if woman has ennobled it as her feeling . Girls and women have composed most of the Corsican soBgs of revenge , and they are sung from mountain-top to shore . This creates a very atmosphere of revenge , in which
the people live and the children grow up , sucking in the wild meaning of the Vendetta with their mothers' milk . In one of these songs , it is said , that twelve lives are insufficient to avenge the fallen man ' s—boots . That is Corsican . A man like Hamlet , who struggles to fill himself with the spirit of the Vendetta , and cannot do it , would be pronounced by the Corsicana the most despicable of all poltroons . No where in the world , perhaps , does human blood and human life count for so little as in Corsica . The Corsican is ready to take life , but he is also ready to die . — Wanderings in Corsica , vol . i .
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Grand Lodge of England , and also to support a Grand Lodge . This applies only to Upper Canada , as we have in the lower provinces two more E . G . Lodges to support , and the inroad this makes upon our funds , often necessitates the refusal of relief to Brethren in distress ^ from actual want of funds .
The appointment of our P . G . M . by the Grand Lodge of England operates most seriously to our disadvantage : our present P . G . M . of Upper Canada exhibits a perfect indifference to the interests of Masonry , attending no Lodges , grand or subordinate , and only occasionally appearing at public ceremonies , leaving all his duties to be performed by his deputy .
I need not point out how different will be our position now we elect our own G . M . I trust the perusal of the Address will secure the Grand Lodge of Canada the advantage of your attendance and support when the
question comes before the consideration of the Grand Lodge of [ England , and , ! assure you , your countenance was never requested in a more righteous cause . I am , my dear Sir and Brother , Tours truly and-fraternally , W . L . So
The Coggin Subscription . —Though we regret the necessity of a subscription being entered into for the assistance of Bro . Coggin , who for upwards of thirty years has been most assiduous in attending to the comfort of the visitors to the Freemason ' ^ Tavern , —we cannot do otherwise than call upon the Brethren to assist in the good work . Bro . Coggin has , towards the close of life , from unforeseen causes , left the Tavern straightened in his ' circumstances , and a little help may enable him to pass his remaining years in comparative comfort . Who that knows the man will withhold it ? We feel sure not one .
The Vendetta . —Not to take revenge is considered by the genuine Corsican as degrading . Thirst for vengeance is , with them , an entirely natural sentiment ; a passion that has become hallowed . In their songs revenge has a cultus , and is celebrated . as a religion of filial piety . Now a sentiment which the poetry of a people has adopted as an essential characteristic of the nationality is ineradicable ; and this in the highest degree , if woman has ennobled it as her feeling . Girls and women have composed most of the Corsican soBgs of revenge , and they are sung from mountain-top to shore . This creates a very atmosphere of revenge , in which
the people live and the children grow up , sucking in the wild meaning of the Vendetta with their mothers' milk . In one of these songs , it is said , that twelve lives are insufficient to avenge the fallen man ' s—boots . That is Corsican . A man like Hamlet , who struggles to fill himself with the spirit of the Vendetta , and cannot do it , would be pronounced by the Corsicana the most despicable of all poltroons . No where in the world , perhaps , does human blood and human life count for so little as in Corsica . The Corsican is ready to take life , but he is also ready to die . — Wanderings in Corsica , vol . i .
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