Enjoyment Attending The Pursuit Of Knowledge.

to his fair possessions , ancl , crossing the JEgeaxi , to repair to Athens , where he continued to pursue his studies while his estate was running to waste , and at last maintained himself by giving lessons to others . Cicero mentions Anaxagoras , along with Pythagoras and Democritus , as having

declined those public honours , and that share in the management of affairs to Avhich his birth ancl qualifications entitled him to aspire , " for the sake , " as ho expresses it , " of tranquillity , and for the sake of the sweetness of knowledge , than which nothing is to man more delightful" —propter

tran-, quillitatem-, ct - propter ipsius seientice suaviiatem , qua nihil est hominibus jucundius . —De Oratore , lib . iii . This is the testimony of one ivho had himself tasted the charms of political poAver as Avell as those of philosophy . —Graih .

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MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

ENGLISH UEEEMASOSTH . V ASM ) CEETAIX COJS T ISESTAL LODGES . A correspondent inquires what are the principal differences betiveen English and Continental Preemasonry ? A full statement of those differences would fill a volume , and ivould require a knoivleclge of the proceedings of the Craft in PranceGermanyaud

, , Italy far exceeding that Avhich I possess . There is , however , one difference , at least as regards certain Continental lodges , which deserves especial notice . English Preemasonry tolerates no sort of Pantheism , but certain Continental lodges do not consider Pantheismwhen not atheisticalas constituting an

, , objection to a candidate's admission into our Order ; see my communication entitled "Lessing's Publications on Preemasonry , " PREEICASOST ' S MAGAZINE , vol . 10 , page 331 . In the latter part of that communication one the lodges now alluded to was in my view . —CltABKES PUB'XOK COOPEB ..

A SHOUT ASSWEB 'XO THE REPLY OE THE LYOXS EltEEMASOXS TO THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION . Under the above head I find the "following curious production in tlie Monthly Summary for Australia ancl Europe of tbe NEW ZEALAND ADVERTISER , of Priday , January 12 th 1866 . AHOAV me to express a hope that our Lyons brethren may not feel it

necessary Iso commit suicide under the lash of the clear-sighted and vigourous " Philalethe . " To us poor ignorant dupes of the ancient Craft in Europe , the New Zealander ' s-definition of Preemasonry is certainly a hovel one . But he should have reserved it until he could hai-e stood " on a broken arch of

London bridge" etc . —GEORGE MARKHAM TWEDDELL , P . S . A . SCOT , NEAVC . " Gentlemen , —One word only with you , in order to remove the scandal which silence would inflict on the weak . Your reply is a tissue of lies and gross misrepresentations . Suffice it to signal some of them .

'The Allocution omits nothing , not even the appeal to the secular arm . ' In reality that appeal by the Pope to tbe secular arm is a request to the Sovereigns not to countenance , not to protect , not to be members or even heads of Ereemasons' Societies . Example : The King of Prussia is the chief of Preemasonry in his States . In France Preemasonry is highly protected ;

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and there both Government and Preemasons have crushed under their heels the humble and charitable Society of St . Vincent de Paul . In that country Preemasons pretend to enjoy the monopoly of charitable associations , their motto being practically down with St . Vincent de Paul , and up with Voltaire and his followers . In truthgentlemen dole out

, , you may a few charities , but real charity , and the love of universal fraternity is rare amongst you . Why do you generally exclude from your ranks poor people , or people of interior rank ? The rich , the high folk alone are welcome ; that is the rule . Exceptions are few in number . Charity , I say , is rare amongst you ;

and there is still less religion . Why , last year the various Prench lodges put iu deliberation to strike off from the Masonic creed the existence of the Supreme Architect of the Universe . God , if I may say so , had a narrow escape at their hands ; lie was saved by a few votes onlnor is the fiht over yet . Poor

y ; g Ereemasons ! they are condemned without being heard ! How can they lie so unblushingly , they having been heard ancl condemned within the last hundred years aud upwards by six or seven Popes ! The Pope has the ' not very Christian wish to see them crushed for the good of the Church . " But if

you act like serpents toivards Church and Society , . . . you might as Avell qualify as very Christian that Prench woman , a serpent killer mentioned by all newspapers only a few months ago . No , we do not wish your death , but vve want to avoid , your teeth and your poisonby unravelling your tyranny and

, hypocrisy . " I have the honour to be , gentlemen , " Your devoted humble servant , " PHILALETHE . "

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THE OLDEST MAJST IN THE . WOKDD . —We read in the New York Herald—Joseph Grele , probably the oldest man in the world , died in Caledonia , Wisconsin , on the 27 th of January last , at the age of 14-1 years . Joseph Crele was born of French parents , in what is now Detroit , but which was then only an Indian trading station , in 1725 . Tlie record of his baptism in the Roman Catholic Church in that city establishes this fact beyond a doubt . He ivas first married in ISfew Orleansin 1755 and

, , settled at Prairie du Chien , while Wisconsin was yet a province of France . A few years ago ho was called as a witness in the Circuit Court of Wisconsin , in a case involving the title to a certain real estate at Praire du Chien , to give testimony in relation to events that transpired eighty years before , and many years before the litigants were dreamt of . Por some years past lie had resided at Caledonia with a daughter by his third wife .

This child is a little over seventy years of age . He was sixtynine when she was born . Up to lSG-i , Mr . Crele was as hale and hearty as most men of seventy . He could walk several miles without fatigue , ancl chopped wood for the family use . He went to all elections , and from tlie time he first voted for Washington , he had always voted the straight-out Union ticket . He was an inveterate smoker . The only weakness of mind which he ever betrayed was in the last year or two of his

existence , lvlien lie frequently remarked , with a startling ah * of sadness , that he feared that perhaps " Death had forgotten him ;" but he would always acid , with more cheerfulness , that he felt , sure " God had not . " THE POPES os ROME . —The following is said to be an exact , statement of the various countries to which have belonged all tlie different Popes ( 257 iu number ) who have occupied the papal throne from St . Peter : —1 Galilean 17 Greeks 4 Africans

, , , 6 Syrians , 1 Sabine , 1 G Tuscans , 2 Dalmatians , 4 Sicilians , 16 Neapolitans , 3 Sardinians , 4 Spaniards , 7 Venetians , 8 Milanese , 15 French , 6 Germans , 1 from Lorraine , 1 Bnrgiindiaii , 5 Genoese , 2 Piedmontese , 1 Dutch , 1 Portuguese , 2 English , 12 Candiotes , and 134 Roman and other states belonging to the Holy See .