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Upon The Antiquity Of The Arabians, Their Language And Letters, And The Origin Of The Chinese A^'D Their Empire.
was called Charnorn , or Chum : in process of time , in this place , was afterwards erected the great city of Thebes , called by the Greeks Diospolis , or the city of Jupiter , who was their ancient patriarch Ham . There is a very remarkable fragment of Eupolemus , an ancient heathen writer , taken from the Babylonian monuments preserved by Eusebius , which signifies , in our mother tongue , that according to the Babylonians the first was Belus : the same with Kronos , or Saturn ; from him came Ham , or Cham , the father of Canaan , brother to Mesraim , father of the Egyptians . END OF THE FIRST PABT .
The Grand Lodge Of England, And The Representative System.
THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND , AND THE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM .
" When administrative abuses are introduced into a monarchy , it only requires a welldisposed and enlightened prince to crush the gang of official oppressors and extortioners ; because , such a prince is powerfully backed in such measures by the public opinion : whereas , when the majority of the ruling class in misnamed republics is corrupted so far as to speculate on the profit of malversation , it generally takes care to recruit its ranks with new accomplices , or , at all events , only to promote to public offices , such men as will at least shut their eyes to public abuses . " —History of Switzerland . '' THE public interests of the Fraternity are managed by a general
representation of all private Lodges on record , together with the Grancl Stewards of the year and the present and past Grand Officers , and the Grand Master at their head ; this collective body is styled THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF ENGLAND , and its Members rank in the following order : —The Grand Master ; the Pro Grand Master ; the Past Grancl Master , & c . & c . ; the Masters , Past Masters , and AVardens of the Grancl Stewards Lodge , and of every
other private Lodge . " Every Brother regularly elected and installed as Master of a Lodge , who has executed that office for one year , shall so long as he continues a subscribing Member of any Lodge rank as a Past Master , and be a Member of the Grand Lodge , & c . & c . "— -See Book of Constitutions , Edition 1841 , page 16 , et seq . However trifling or unimportant the chroniclers of events may be thought at the period in which they lived , with whatever superciliousness they may have been treated by those who were contemporaries and
thought themselves superior ; however poor , neglected or insulted they may have been in their daily occupations , while detractors and defamers were ever ready to meettheir honest exertions , history has shewn , that we are indebted to obscure individuals for valuable and important information , for references and hints to authenticate the records of the past , and for the bearings of causes , circumstances and events by which the otherwise inexplicable changes were produced—and the motives for great alterations ancl reforms have been laid open by searching among
those labourers , —while writers of the present century seek not only the ivell known volumes of former historians for facts , they search among hitherto unknown manuscripts for corroborative evidence where apparently nothing was to be ascertained , yet these have thrown much light upon the subject , and have exemplified in no small degree the pages of the past . Coins , ballads , monuments , tombs , & c . have been made to
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Upon The Antiquity Of The Arabians, Their Language And Letters, And The Origin Of The Chinese A^'D Their Empire.
was called Charnorn , or Chum : in process of time , in this place , was afterwards erected the great city of Thebes , called by the Greeks Diospolis , or the city of Jupiter , who was their ancient patriarch Ham . There is a very remarkable fragment of Eupolemus , an ancient heathen writer , taken from the Babylonian monuments preserved by Eusebius , which signifies , in our mother tongue , that according to the Babylonians the first was Belus : the same with Kronos , or Saturn ; from him came Ham , or Cham , the father of Canaan , brother to Mesraim , father of the Egyptians . END OF THE FIRST PABT .
The Grand Lodge Of England, And The Representative System.
THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND , AND THE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM .
" When administrative abuses are introduced into a monarchy , it only requires a welldisposed and enlightened prince to crush the gang of official oppressors and extortioners ; because , such a prince is powerfully backed in such measures by the public opinion : whereas , when the majority of the ruling class in misnamed republics is corrupted so far as to speculate on the profit of malversation , it generally takes care to recruit its ranks with new accomplices , or , at all events , only to promote to public offices , such men as will at least shut their eyes to public abuses . " —History of Switzerland . '' THE public interests of the Fraternity are managed by a general
representation of all private Lodges on record , together with the Grancl Stewards of the year and the present and past Grand Officers , and the Grand Master at their head ; this collective body is styled THE UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF ENGLAND , and its Members rank in the following order : —The Grand Master ; the Pro Grand Master ; the Past Grancl Master , & c . & c . ; the Masters , Past Masters , and AVardens of the Grancl Stewards Lodge , and of every
other private Lodge . " Every Brother regularly elected and installed as Master of a Lodge , who has executed that office for one year , shall so long as he continues a subscribing Member of any Lodge rank as a Past Master , and be a Member of the Grand Lodge , & c . & c . "— -See Book of Constitutions , Edition 1841 , page 16 , et seq . However trifling or unimportant the chroniclers of events may be thought at the period in which they lived , with whatever superciliousness they may have been treated by those who were contemporaries and
thought themselves superior ; however poor , neglected or insulted they may have been in their daily occupations , while detractors and defamers were ever ready to meettheir honest exertions , history has shewn , that we are indebted to obscure individuals for valuable and important information , for references and hints to authenticate the records of the past , and for the bearings of causes , circumstances and events by which the otherwise inexplicable changes were produced—and the motives for great alterations ancl reforms have been laid open by searching among
those labourers , —while writers of the present century seek not only the ivell known volumes of former historians for facts , they search among hitherto unknown manuscripts for corroborative evidence where apparently nothing was to be ascertained , yet these have thrown much light upon the subject , and have exemplified in no small degree the pages of the past . Coins , ballads , monuments , tombs , & c . have been made to