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The Can Adas.
ones by the Grand Master elect , and installation and investiture of the same ; with the usual proclamations , Grand honours , & c , by the Grand Director of Ceremonies . "Motions , resolutions ^ an d notices of motion . " Closei the Grand Lodge in ample form , and with solemn prayer . " The banquet will commence by passing round the cup of brotherly love ; the Grand Master to drink first : ' Peace , goodwill , and brotherly love , all over the world /
" While the cup is passing , the Brethren to sing 'Auld Lang Syne / Cheers , nine times nine /'
Our Architectural Chapter.
OUR AEGHITECTIJEAL CHAPTER .
INFLUENCE OF MASONRY ON ABCHITECTUBE . "We are not without hopes that our architectural chapter will prove of great interest in Masonic history not only as to the past , but the future . With regard to the past , Masonry has had much more influence on archi ^ tecture not only directly , but indirectly , than those who have not looked at it from a Masonic aspect ^ would perceive . Let us consider for a while
what was the state of contemporary architecture when Masonry attracted public attention in the beginning of the last century ? It was little else thari an effete degeneration of the Italian styles . In France the fine works ofthe architects of Lou is Q , uatorze were succeeded by frippery and rococo . The renaissance was defunct and the spurious offspring of the classic styles degenerated under the reign of Louis Quinze and his artistic era . Germany w ^ as governed by the worst fashionsof France . In Italy architecture languished in common with painting and sculpture , we had almost said with
literature , for her dramatists alone redeemed her literature from extinction . Spain was in a condition as low as Italy , and was glad to import Raphael Mengs as an apostle of art . At home Wren had died in neglect , and his scholars were men to whom his mantle fell not ; in their hands the Italian examples became heavy and tame , and the stone of Wren and Vanbrugh was succeeded by brick—and very plain brick . The new school of woodcarving Wren had raised lived no longer than Grinling Gibbons , and was replaced by composition . His school of decoration left no successors to Thornhill ; and the decline of art was evident , while it experienced no relief from France or Italy , whose decrepitude we have already depicted .
In the Lodges , in conformity with the fashion of Wren ' s day , the three columns , Corinthian , Ionic and Doric were maintained ; but there was a principle alive in Masonry which protested against enslavement even to the ^ representatives of glorious orders of art . The vital traditions of Masonry , catholic because comprehensive , allowed no monopoly to classic or Italian art , such as had of late years been claimed for it ; they protested against the fashionable bigotry of the beginning of the century and the
Athenian fanaticism of its closing period , when the measurement of the buildings of Athens and other ancient cities , of architecture more or less remote , produced a second burst of enthusiasm for the classic . Masonry acknowledged the Corinthian , Ionic , Doric , and in fact the other orders , becaiise Masonry acknowledged the continuous history of the art and its antiquity ; but an important feature in the history of Masonry at that time , though of less importance now , was that Masonry referred back to those traditions of the gnthic period ; when some of the noblest works of modern times II o
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The Can Adas.
ones by the Grand Master elect , and installation and investiture of the same ; with the usual proclamations , Grand honours , & c , by the Grand Director of Ceremonies . "Motions , resolutions ^ an d notices of motion . " Closei the Grand Lodge in ample form , and with solemn prayer . " The banquet will commence by passing round the cup of brotherly love ; the Grand Master to drink first : ' Peace , goodwill , and brotherly love , all over the world /
" While the cup is passing , the Brethren to sing 'Auld Lang Syne / Cheers , nine times nine /'
Our Architectural Chapter.
OUR AEGHITECTIJEAL CHAPTER .
INFLUENCE OF MASONRY ON ABCHITECTUBE . "We are not without hopes that our architectural chapter will prove of great interest in Masonic history not only as to the past , but the future . With regard to the past , Masonry has had much more influence on archi ^ tecture not only directly , but indirectly , than those who have not looked at it from a Masonic aspect ^ would perceive . Let us consider for a while
what was the state of contemporary architecture when Masonry attracted public attention in the beginning of the last century ? It was little else thari an effete degeneration of the Italian styles . In France the fine works ofthe architects of Lou is Q , uatorze were succeeded by frippery and rococo . The renaissance was defunct and the spurious offspring of the classic styles degenerated under the reign of Louis Quinze and his artistic era . Germany w ^ as governed by the worst fashionsof France . In Italy architecture languished in common with painting and sculpture , we had almost said with
literature , for her dramatists alone redeemed her literature from extinction . Spain was in a condition as low as Italy , and was glad to import Raphael Mengs as an apostle of art . At home Wren had died in neglect , and his scholars were men to whom his mantle fell not ; in their hands the Italian examples became heavy and tame , and the stone of Wren and Vanbrugh was succeeded by brick—and very plain brick . The new school of woodcarving Wren had raised lived no longer than Grinling Gibbons , and was replaced by composition . His school of decoration left no successors to Thornhill ; and the decline of art was evident , while it experienced no relief from France or Italy , whose decrepitude we have already depicted .
In the Lodges , in conformity with the fashion of Wren ' s day , the three columns , Corinthian , Ionic and Doric were maintained ; but there was a principle alive in Masonry which protested against enslavement even to the ^ representatives of glorious orders of art . The vital traditions of Masonry , catholic because comprehensive , allowed no monopoly to classic or Italian art , such as had of late years been claimed for it ; they protested against the fashionable bigotry of the beginning of the century and the
Athenian fanaticism of its closing period , when the measurement of the buildings of Athens and other ancient cities , of architecture more or less remote , produced a second burst of enthusiasm for the classic . Masonry acknowledged the Corinthian , Ionic , Doric , and in fact the other orders , becaiise Masonry acknowledged the continuous history of the art and its antiquity ; but an important feature in the history of Masonry at that time , though of less importance now , was that Masonry referred back to those traditions of the gnthic period ; when some of the noblest works of modern times II o