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Article V ANCIENT WR1TEES AND MODEEN PRACTICES. ← Page 5 of 5
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V Ancient Wr1tees And Modeen Practices.
and , — < Wfeat is the nature and essence of Free-Masonrv ( lhe consecpience is that one idea always exciting the other , they constantly come out shouldering and elbowing each other for precedency—every sentence is charged with a double commission—the professor gets angry with himself , begins to splutter unintelligibly , and finds on looking round him , that
he has wheeled about to a point of the argument consideraoly in the rear of that which he had reached perhaps a hundred and fifty pages before , . I have done what I could to remedy these infirmities of the book ; and upon the whole it is a good deal less paralytic than it was . But , having begun my task on the assumption that the first chapter should naturally come before the second , the second before the third , and so on , I find now ( when the mischief is irreparable ) that I made a great mistake in that assumption
which perhaps is not applicable to Gottingen books ; and that if I had read the book on the Hebrew principle , or Bowrpo ^ ftov ( boustrophedon , that is , beginning at the end and reading backwards ) , or had tacked and traversed , or done anything but sail on a straight line , ! could not have failed to improve the arrangement of my materials . But after all , I have so white-washed the professor , that nothing but a life of gratitude on his part , and free admission to his logic lectures for ever , can possibly repay me for my services . "
"With such difficulties to contend against , with a hook to work upon like SoutheyV" Doctor , " which begins at the sixth or seventh chapter , and goes backwards to the first , with such confusion to set in order , and confusion not discovered till too late , can it be wondered at if X . T . Z . s paper on a subject with which he was not intimately acquainted , is itself a little confused ? Gratitude , indeed ,
anyone ought to feel to a benefactor who disentangles a hopeless mess ; but as for the right of attending his logic lectures—from what we remember of such delights in our college days—we should be disposed to waive that privilege , and have some other proof of the existence of that virtuous feeling . "We propose to give a further notice of this paper ; but before concluding the present one , let us correct a misprint or two , which arose , doubtless , from our own bad writing , in our number of March 17 th . In the middle of p . 486 , for " Chichell , " react " Chichele , " and about three-quarters down p . 488 , for- " grounds' * read " bounds . " We should also inform our readers that the whole passage about Pyrrhus the Epirote is not our own , but De Qaincey ' s , and all should therefore have appeared as a quotation , instead of the speeches only . . A ..
A Noblk Aim . —The great aim and end of our exertions , as Masons , should be to place the Masonic institution upon that moral eminence where it may be viewed with admiration by all mankind . [ Founded , as it was , on the best attributes of human nature—calculated , as it is , to bring into activity the most noble impulses of the human heart , we , who are now responsible , not only for its safety ,
but , if possible , for its improvement , shall have a startling account to settle with the Deity hereafter , if we are false to our trust—if we suffer this sacred institution , second only to the holy religion we all profess , to become less important to humanity—less efficient in the great cause of benevolence—less respected and less revered by the great human family ., than it was when it came into our keeping . ~ B . B . French .
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V Ancient Wr1tees And Modeen Practices.
and , — < Wfeat is the nature and essence of Free-Masonrv ( lhe consecpience is that one idea always exciting the other , they constantly come out shouldering and elbowing each other for precedency—every sentence is charged with a double commission—the professor gets angry with himself , begins to splutter unintelligibly , and finds on looking round him , that
he has wheeled about to a point of the argument consideraoly in the rear of that which he had reached perhaps a hundred and fifty pages before , . I have done what I could to remedy these infirmities of the book ; and upon the whole it is a good deal less paralytic than it was . But , having begun my task on the assumption that the first chapter should naturally come before the second , the second before the third , and so on , I find now ( when the mischief is irreparable ) that I made a great mistake in that assumption
which perhaps is not applicable to Gottingen books ; and that if I had read the book on the Hebrew principle , or Bowrpo ^ ftov ( boustrophedon , that is , beginning at the end and reading backwards ) , or had tacked and traversed , or done anything but sail on a straight line , ! could not have failed to improve the arrangement of my materials . But after all , I have so white-washed the professor , that nothing but a life of gratitude on his part , and free admission to his logic lectures for ever , can possibly repay me for my services . "
"With such difficulties to contend against , with a hook to work upon like SoutheyV" Doctor , " which begins at the sixth or seventh chapter , and goes backwards to the first , with such confusion to set in order , and confusion not discovered till too late , can it be wondered at if X . T . Z . s paper on a subject with which he was not intimately acquainted , is itself a little confused ? Gratitude , indeed ,
anyone ought to feel to a benefactor who disentangles a hopeless mess ; but as for the right of attending his logic lectures—from what we remember of such delights in our college days—we should be disposed to waive that privilege , and have some other proof of the existence of that virtuous feeling . "We propose to give a further notice of this paper ; but before concluding the present one , let us correct a misprint or two , which arose , doubtless , from our own bad writing , in our number of March 17 th . In the middle of p . 486 , for " Chichell , " react " Chichele , " and about three-quarters down p . 488 , for- " grounds' * read " bounds . " We should also inform our readers that the whole passage about Pyrrhus the Epirote is not our own , but De Qaincey ' s , and all should therefore have appeared as a quotation , instead of the speeches only . . A ..
A Noblk Aim . —The great aim and end of our exertions , as Masons , should be to place the Masonic institution upon that moral eminence where it may be viewed with admiration by all mankind . [ Founded , as it was , on the best attributes of human nature—calculated , as it is , to bring into activity the most noble impulses of the human heart , we , who are now responsible , not only for its safety ,
but , if possible , for its improvement , shall have a startling account to settle with the Deity hereafter , if we are false to our trust—if we suffer this sacred institution , second only to the holy religion we all profess , to become less important to humanity—less efficient in the great cause of benevolence—less respected and less revered by the great human family ., than it was when it came into our keeping . ~ B . B . French .