Triangulation.

The schismatic , self-styled , Mark Lodge of England , commenced in perjury and rebellion , is likewise so un-masonic as to defy all means of estimation , by any process whatever . The Order of Knights Templar , the only body

whose attitude can come under the masonic guage has been so shamefully bedraggled in the mire , at the heels of these two other parties , by a Grand Chancellor who is as crotchety as he is ludicrous , that Triangulation is not needed to estimate how low it has fallen , in the opinion of all conscientious

brethren , and therefore we must look for some development of the system to render the principle of Triangulation applicable . Such an one happily recurs to the memory . Bro . Captain Marryatt wrote some charming novels in one of which he gave an account of a triangular feat , which is but poorly parodied in the irresistibly comic compact these three bodies have put forward .

Captain Marryatt makes two wily fellows engage his hero , —an unsuspecting person , —to take part with them in a triangular duel , and the high contracting parties to the miserable farce they have tried to pass off on the masonic world have travestied the scene . The two irresponsible parties to this compact have ,

in the person of the unsuspecting Templar , caught their "Peter Simple , " and after getting him to submit his weapons , ( the rights , privileges , and immunities of the Order ) , to their manipulation , it is not very difficult to see how they will pepper him . If " the proper study of mankind is man , " then

the recent compact is a problem of masonic triangulation well worthy the study of the brotherhood . In itself it is not a tithe-part as diverting as the original " Peter Simple" ; but , as an evidence of how far two unscrupulous bodies can go in hoodwinking the senility of a third it is no bad example of the use of the art of unscientific Triangulation .

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