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suspectest it of coming of the devil , cast it out of thy fingers—cling it never so tenaciously—like a snake . We hate jobs ; we hate jobbers . We turn with disgust from men who do not care for merit in their choice for an office , provided that their objects are answered , in relation to it , other ways .

These men would raise money upon the keys of St . Peter , We almost believe in a certain metaphysic double-doing , and that the acts of this world are faithfully copied into- —perhaps instigated byanother one of which we are insensible , of which this world is the complement or reflection . In this queer but not unphilosophical view of things—disciples of Spinoza , Berkeley , and Swedenborg—majestic

Triad!—well understand us—all our petty acts of religious treason , all our devil ' s-barter , all our Mammon-huckstering and infidel compromise , hath perhaps its double-drama going contemporaneously on , faint or red , in the realms of Orcus , according to the intensity of our sin-stain or guilt-glow in the actual world , and apprehended through altogether another agency than any which , in this mortal state , we

may understand . Terrible suspicion , this ] There may be an invisible witness and register against us—ay , about our footsteps ! —alone , as we think ourselves , in this quiet world ! There , in that fact , the belief that the spirits are out of the world , lieth , we think , the source of much vice and sin . Men , in their secret heart , believe that there is no such thing as a superintending Providence . They act as if they thought that God had forgotten His world . It is

too much of an everyday place of business for high truths to seem any other than as excellent stories to frighten children . Priests remain satisfied with forms , and decline to question conscience too closely . They sleep ; or we should see them—by name and officeholy ministers , torch in hand and with cries of alarm , arousing the dead midnight in their knocks at the doors of a by far too luxuriouslyhoused generation , buried in dreams which may well indeed be called dangerous !

Our rulers and governors , and those who are put in authority over us , have much carelessness , much muddle , to answer for : we fear there are even " pickers and stealers ? ' amongst them . They make the government of this great England , in many respects , nothing but a miserable mean game of cards—a perpetual cribbage . Do we pay our taxes to have our Public Boards so frequently

nothing but wood ? Is this huge banner of the public weal that is so ostentatiously paraded in our faces , and behind which all these fine gentlemen with their bags , green or blue ^ and their bundles of papers , advance crouching , or stand up , every now and then , to blow some foolish blast upon their vain-glorious trumpets;—as

this banner of presumed excellent government and grand patriotic leading ( so marched up and down , and bobbed impudently in , to astonish us at oar second-floor windows )—is this , we say , to be continually patched when public disgust tears a great hole in it ? Alas little of our grand British lions shall we have remaining but tho tails , if we go on at the present rate of demolition , on the part

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MASONIC REFOEM. Article 1
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CELBREATBD FREEMASONS. Article 3
THE SIGNS OV ENGLAND; Article 13
NOTES OF A YACHT'S CRUISE TO BALAKLAVA. Article 17
THE ANTIQUITY OF FREEMASONRY. Article 24
REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS, Article 25
MUSIC. Article 27
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 29
THE PRINTERS' ALMSHOUSES. Article 36
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 37
METROPOLITAN. Article 46
INSTRUCTION. Article 52
PROVINCIAL. Article 57
ROYAL ARCH. Article 74
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 78
SCOTLAND Article 80
COLONIAL Article 81
AMERICA. Article 81
SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR MAY. Article 83
Obituary. Article 87
NOTICE. Article 88
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 88
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suspectest it of coming of the devil , cast it out of thy fingers—cling it never so tenaciously—like a snake . We hate jobs ; we hate jobbers . We turn with disgust from men who do not care for merit in their choice for an office , provided that their objects are answered , in relation to it , other ways .

These men would raise money upon the keys of St . Peter , We almost believe in a certain metaphysic double-doing , and that the acts of this world are faithfully copied into- —perhaps instigated byanother one of which we are insensible , of which this world is the complement or reflection . In this queer but not unphilosophical view of things—disciples of Spinoza , Berkeley , and Swedenborg—majestic

Triad!—well understand us—all our petty acts of religious treason , all our devil ' s-barter , all our Mammon-huckstering and infidel compromise , hath perhaps its double-drama going contemporaneously on , faint or red , in the realms of Orcus , according to the intensity of our sin-stain or guilt-glow in the actual world , and apprehended through altogether another agency than any which , in this mortal state , we

may understand . Terrible suspicion , this ] There may be an invisible witness and register against us—ay , about our footsteps ! —alone , as we think ourselves , in this quiet world ! There , in that fact , the belief that the spirits are out of the world , lieth , we think , the source of much vice and sin . Men , in their secret heart , believe that there is no such thing as a superintending Providence . They act as if they thought that God had forgotten His world . It is

too much of an everyday place of business for high truths to seem any other than as excellent stories to frighten children . Priests remain satisfied with forms , and decline to question conscience too closely . They sleep ; or we should see them—by name and officeholy ministers , torch in hand and with cries of alarm , arousing the dead midnight in their knocks at the doors of a by far too luxuriouslyhoused generation , buried in dreams which may well indeed be called dangerous !

Our rulers and governors , and those who are put in authority over us , have much carelessness , much muddle , to answer for : we fear there are even " pickers and stealers ? ' amongst them . They make the government of this great England , in many respects , nothing but a miserable mean game of cards—a perpetual cribbage . Do we pay our taxes to have our Public Boards so frequently

nothing but wood ? Is this huge banner of the public weal that is so ostentatiously paraded in our faces , and behind which all these fine gentlemen with their bags , green or blue ^ and their bundles of papers , advance crouching , or stand up , every now and then , to blow some foolish blast upon their vain-glorious trumpets;—as

this banner of presumed excellent government and grand patriotic leading ( so marched up and down , and bobbed impudently in , to astonish us at oar second-floor windows )—is this , we say , to be continually patched when public disgust tears a great hole in it ? Alas little of our grand British lions shall we have remaining but tho tails , if we go on at the present rate of demolition , on the part

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