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Secret Societies.
society in the world . If its " Monita Secreta " may be credited , it has three normal degrees , and the fourth , a secret and mysterious grade to which very few attain . Originally , undoubtedly religious in the fervent and militant piety of " Ignatius Loyal , it soon , under the perverted direction of Lainez and " Acquaviva , " interfered in political
and religious questions : and whereas Roman Catholic countries have suffered from that mysterious body , France especially owes to the Jesuits , as a fair inference of cause and effect , from unhallowed teaching , secret persecutions , and faithless acts , the horrors of the French Revolution .
Ireland , during the last century , and Scotland and England up to the close of the first three decades of this , boasted of many secret societies , as " the Peep of Day Boys , " " the United Irishmen , " " the Defenders , " and many more ; while in France , Spain , Italy , and Germany , we are told , of countless secret political associations , which ,
under the various names of "Turgenbund , " " Templiers , " "La Marianne , " "the Li Decisi , " "Les Bon Enfans , " and many more , gave great trouble to the authorities , and paved the way for constant uprisings and even revolutions . Some forty years ago we can remember the Chartist organization in this country , and in "Sybil "
we have a graphic description of a trade combination—initiation . As a curious counterpoise to this statement , we are told that China and Japan are overrun with secret societies , one of which , " the Triad Society in China , " has attracted the notice of many able writers .
In this our own epoch we have seen the rising , though let us hope the fall is not far off , of Fenians and Nihilists . These " dynamite " heroes , as they have been well called , who war Avith society , and on the lines of savage unforgivingness and barbaric cruelty , can only as such , be put down by the strong , iron , pitiless hand of supreme authority .
Those who take the sword must perish by the sword , and no lawabiding man , no one imbued with the benevolent , and civilizing , and ennobling principle of English law especially , can have any pity for these foolish and wicked men , who , by their senseless and insane proceedings , set both law and order , humanity and decency at defiance ,
and throw back for many generations probably the peaceful and assured progress of the human race . Freemasons have been sometimes accused of being a secret political society , friends of confusion , fautors of revolution . Nothing can be less true than such a charge , often repeated , easily refuted .
Freemasonry is a secret society no doubt , but especiall y tolerated and sanctioned by laAvful authority in the countries where it pursues its beneficent mission . Its secrecy , let us note , is only lawful in that it is allowed by the State , and in England Freemasonry is specially pro-
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Secret Societies.
society in the world . If its " Monita Secreta " may be credited , it has three normal degrees , and the fourth , a secret and mysterious grade to which very few attain . Originally , undoubtedly religious in the fervent and militant piety of " Ignatius Loyal , it soon , under the perverted direction of Lainez and " Acquaviva , " interfered in political
and religious questions : and whereas Roman Catholic countries have suffered from that mysterious body , France especially owes to the Jesuits , as a fair inference of cause and effect , from unhallowed teaching , secret persecutions , and faithless acts , the horrors of the French Revolution .
Ireland , during the last century , and Scotland and England up to the close of the first three decades of this , boasted of many secret societies , as " the Peep of Day Boys , " " the United Irishmen , " " the Defenders , " and many more ; while in France , Spain , Italy , and Germany , we are told , of countless secret political associations , which ,
under the various names of "Turgenbund , " " Templiers , " "La Marianne , " "the Li Decisi , " "Les Bon Enfans , " and many more , gave great trouble to the authorities , and paved the way for constant uprisings and even revolutions . Some forty years ago we can remember the Chartist organization in this country , and in "Sybil "
we have a graphic description of a trade combination—initiation . As a curious counterpoise to this statement , we are told that China and Japan are overrun with secret societies , one of which , " the Triad Society in China , " has attracted the notice of many able writers .
In this our own epoch we have seen the rising , though let us hope the fall is not far off , of Fenians and Nihilists . These " dynamite " heroes , as they have been well called , who war Avith society , and on the lines of savage unforgivingness and barbaric cruelty , can only as such , be put down by the strong , iron , pitiless hand of supreme authority .
Those who take the sword must perish by the sword , and no lawabiding man , no one imbued with the benevolent , and civilizing , and ennobling principle of English law especially , can have any pity for these foolish and wicked men , who , by their senseless and insane proceedings , set both law and order , humanity and decency at defiance ,
and throw back for many generations probably the peaceful and assured progress of the human race . Freemasons have been sometimes accused of being a secret political society , friends of confusion , fautors of revolution . Nothing can be less true than such a charge , often repeated , easily refuted .
Freemasonry is a secret society no doubt , but especiall y tolerated and sanctioned by laAvful authority in the countries where it pursues its beneficent mission . Its secrecy , let us note , is only lawful in that it is allowed by the State , and in England Freemasonry is specially pro-