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Article THE FREEMASON'S QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 5 of 12 →
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The Freemason's Quarterly Review.
teresting debate , upon a motion made by the Duke of Leinster , the Grand Master for Ireland , who took a very proper objection to the nature of the oath as regarded Freemasons . We shall not enter into the details , as they will be found elsewhere .
The majority upon the occasion , however small it may seem , is sufficient to mark the moral impression which the Order exercises upon the human mind in an assemblage of the peers of England;—eighty-five peers having been present in committee , even a minority of three might have
been looked upon as complimentary , although with the act of 1794 unrepealed , and the Order as pure and untainted as when that act itself was passed in the time of peril , it would have been difficult to reconcile what must in such case have appeared an inconsistency ; that many peers lost sight
of the moral question in the political bias , there is little doubt , or the result would have been still more evident . And it may be stated advisedly , that a considerable number of votes were lost by the noble mover not having thought it
necessary to apprise his friends of his intention to move a clause in favour of the exemption . As some evidence that this position is pretty clear , we can state that Lord Dundas , the Pro .-Grand Master , the intimate friend of the Duke of Leinster , was not aware that
a discussion would come on , or his lordship would have been among the first of the foremost to maintain the principles of his heart . We must not be understood , however , in this observation to convey the slightest disrespect toward the Grand Master for Ireland , who felt so confident that
there would not have arisen any opposition to his clause , that he went into the question as a mere construction of the former Act . And he was right in a moral point of view , although as a matter of tact he would have been in a minority but for the support he received from the Marquess
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemason's Quarterly Review.
teresting debate , upon a motion made by the Duke of Leinster , the Grand Master for Ireland , who took a very proper objection to the nature of the oath as regarded Freemasons . We shall not enter into the details , as they will be found elsewhere .
The majority upon the occasion , however small it may seem , is sufficient to mark the moral impression which the Order exercises upon the human mind in an assemblage of the peers of England;—eighty-five peers having been present in committee , even a minority of three might have
been looked upon as complimentary , although with the act of 1794 unrepealed , and the Order as pure and untainted as when that act itself was passed in the time of peril , it would have been difficult to reconcile what must in such case have appeared an inconsistency ; that many peers lost sight
of the moral question in the political bias , there is little doubt , or the result would have been still more evident . And it may be stated advisedly , that a considerable number of votes were lost by the noble mover not having thought it
necessary to apprise his friends of his intention to move a clause in favour of the exemption . As some evidence that this position is pretty clear , we can state that Lord Dundas , the Pro .-Grand Master , the intimate friend of the Duke of Leinster , was not aware that
a discussion would come on , or his lordship would have been among the first of the foremost to maintain the principles of his heart . We must not be understood , however , in this observation to convey the slightest disrespect toward the Grand Master for Ireland , who felt so confident that
there would not have arisen any opposition to his clause , that he went into the question as a mere construction of the former Act . And he was right in a moral point of view , although as a matter of tact he would have been in a minority but for the support he received from the Marquess