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which we tread have all been rolled by the breakers on some stormy beach in ages gone by , or else ( as some suppose ) they are petrifactions of extinct animals . The curved line is the characteristic of animated nature , from the humble mushroom to the majestic elephant . Every leaf , and root , and blossom , and fruit , and seed —•
every trunk , and stem , and branch , and thorn , is round . And this equally prevails in the animal world : beasts , birds , and fishes ; nay , the very worm we tread upon is round ; the curved line , the line of beauty , adorns every race , In the outline of the human frame , more especially in the female figure , the curved line acquires its highest grace and beauty . And this chain of facts , little noticed by artists , less by physiologists , opens a wide and novel field of study . ( To be cmtiwued . )
Travels By A Freemason.
TBAVELS BY A FREEMASON ,
CHAPTER IV . —BBAZIL . ( Continued frompage 424 . ) "While the rest of the party remained in suspense at this unexpected but dramatic situation , the son , whose name I may as well give here , Senor Jose da Coelho , drew the police-officer aside , and commenced a whispering colloquy with him . The fat father , Antonio da € oelho , at last broke silence . " It seems , Sefior Darkle , that this person is the delinquent ? "
" Exactly so , Senor Antonio , " replied Darkle ; who , then turning to me , began , " How , in the name of everything unlucky , could you make such a blunder ? Knocking over two or three police-officers , liberating a rascally slave who was going to be flogged ! I ' m sure I should never think of doing anything of the sort . " To do Mr . Darkle justice , he certainly would not .
" My sole answer is , that I am bound by the laws of my society to help all my brethren . '' " Brethren ! Do you call a cursed nigger your brother ? However , you'll both go to prison together—that you must reflect upon ; This old man is prodigiously enraged , and no wonder—I ' m enraged , too—your conduct is most disgraceful . Why , sir , I'd see a dozen negroes * or a dozen Freemasons , hanged before I put out my finger to liberate one of them !"
" Well , sir , " I replied , " such may he your sentiments on the subject . For my part , as a man , as a Freemason , and more especially * " If the correspondence between external forms and the qualities of mind , " says Mr . Francis Howell , the eloquent translator of the characters of Theophrastus , " shall ever be better understood than it is at present , this addition to our knowledge will assume a form that , while it renders it available to the student in the explication and arrangement of the individual varieties of human nature Will remove it from the danger of popular misuse , "
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which we tread have all been rolled by the breakers on some stormy beach in ages gone by , or else ( as some suppose ) they are petrifactions of extinct animals . The curved line is the characteristic of animated nature , from the humble mushroom to the majestic elephant . Every leaf , and root , and blossom , and fruit , and seed —•
every trunk , and stem , and branch , and thorn , is round . And this equally prevails in the animal world : beasts , birds , and fishes ; nay , the very worm we tread upon is round ; the curved line , the line of beauty , adorns every race , In the outline of the human frame , more especially in the female figure , the curved line acquires its highest grace and beauty . And this chain of facts , little noticed by artists , less by physiologists , opens a wide and novel field of study . ( To be cmtiwued . )
Travels By A Freemason.
TBAVELS BY A FREEMASON ,
CHAPTER IV . —BBAZIL . ( Continued frompage 424 . ) "While the rest of the party remained in suspense at this unexpected but dramatic situation , the son , whose name I may as well give here , Senor Jose da Coelho , drew the police-officer aside , and commenced a whispering colloquy with him . The fat father , Antonio da € oelho , at last broke silence . " It seems , Sefior Darkle , that this person is the delinquent ? "
" Exactly so , Senor Antonio , " replied Darkle ; who , then turning to me , began , " How , in the name of everything unlucky , could you make such a blunder ? Knocking over two or three police-officers , liberating a rascally slave who was going to be flogged ! I ' m sure I should never think of doing anything of the sort . " To do Mr . Darkle justice , he certainly would not .
" My sole answer is , that I am bound by the laws of my society to help all my brethren . '' " Brethren ! Do you call a cursed nigger your brother ? However , you'll both go to prison together—that you must reflect upon ; This old man is prodigiously enraged , and no wonder—I ' m enraged , too—your conduct is most disgraceful . Why , sir , I'd see a dozen negroes * or a dozen Freemasons , hanged before I put out my finger to liberate one of them !"
" Well , sir , " I replied , " such may he your sentiments on the subject . For my part , as a man , as a Freemason , and more especially * " If the correspondence between external forms and the qualities of mind , " says Mr . Francis Howell , the eloquent translator of the characters of Theophrastus , " shall ever be better understood than it is at present , this addition to our knowledge will assume a form that , while it renders it available to the student in the explication and arrangement of the individual varieties of human nature Will remove it from the danger of popular misuse , "