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but destitute of fixed principles . The opinions of such people ¦ —the so-called public opinion is a clap-trap and a delusion—¦ seems merged into a heterogeneous hodge-podge , on the happyfamily principle of stuff your animals to repletion and then
you can tickle them , or torture them , with inrpunity . That is just the case in English Craft Freemasonry , and a journal was required to combat this laxity , but it was also necessary that as we arc , in Freemasonry , without any visible unity , the organ in the Press that took the matter up should have a policy , for a journal without fixed principles is near akin to a religion without a creed . We claim to have a creed and
THE MASONIC PBESS has its principles . Its chief , and leading , feature is , A Thorough Conservative Reform in All Branches of Freemasonry ,
because there are numerous abuses—accumulated more especially during the last half century—which loudly call for redress , and these evils will be unflinchingly and persistently , opposed in THE MASONIC PEESS until they , or it , cease to
exist . But , in order that no mere factious opposition may be surmised , the writers will , while aiming at the Reformation of abuses , never lose sight of the knowledge that a True Conservative Policy tends to Preformation , but detests innovators and innovations , and our general line of practice will be shaped after the model laid down by that eminent orator
and writer , EDMUND BURKE , who said : — " There is a manifest marked distinction which ill men , with ill designs , " or weak men , incapable of any design , will constantly he confounding , " that is , a marked distinction between Change and Reformation . The
" former alters the substance of the objects themselves , and gets rid of " all their essential good , a & well as of all the accidental evil annexed to " them . Change is novelty ; and whether it is to operate any one of the " effects of Reformation at all , or whether it may not contradict the very " principle 1115011 which Eeformation is desired , cannot be certainly known
" beforehand . Reform is , not a change in the substance , or in the " primary modification of the object , but the direct application of a remedy " to the grievance complained of , so far as that is removed , all is sure . B 2
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Number One.
but destitute of fixed principles . The opinions of such people ¦ —the so-called public opinion is a clap-trap and a delusion—¦ seems merged into a heterogeneous hodge-podge , on the happyfamily principle of stuff your animals to repletion and then
you can tickle them , or torture them , with inrpunity . That is just the case in English Craft Freemasonry , and a journal was required to combat this laxity , but it was also necessary that as we arc , in Freemasonry , without any visible unity , the organ in the Press that took the matter up should have a policy , for a journal without fixed principles is near akin to a religion without a creed . We claim to have a creed and
THE MASONIC PBESS has its principles . Its chief , and leading , feature is , A Thorough Conservative Reform in All Branches of Freemasonry ,
because there are numerous abuses—accumulated more especially during the last half century—which loudly call for redress , and these evils will be unflinchingly and persistently , opposed in THE MASONIC PEESS until they , or it , cease to
exist . But , in order that no mere factious opposition may be surmised , the writers will , while aiming at the Reformation of abuses , never lose sight of the knowledge that a True Conservative Policy tends to Preformation , but detests innovators and innovations , and our general line of practice will be shaped after the model laid down by that eminent orator
and writer , EDMUND BURKE , who said : — " There is a manifest marked distinction which ill men , with ill designs , " or weak men , incapable of any design , will constantly he confounding , " that is , a marked distinction between Change and Reformation . The
" former alters the substance of the objects themselves , and gets rid of " all their essential good , a & well as of all the accidental evil annexed to " them . Change is novelty ; and whether it is to operate any one of the " effects of Reformation at all , or whether it may not contradict the very " principle 1115011 which Eeformation is desired , cannot be certainly known
" beforehand . Reform is , not a change in the substance , or in the " primary modification of the object , but the direct application of a remedy " to the grievance complained of , so far as that is removed , all is sure . B 2