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The Rise Of The Five Orders Of Architecture.
THE RISE OF THE FIVE ORDERS OF ARCHITECTURE .
BY BRO . STEPHEN BARTON WILSON , P . M . CADOGAN . LODGE , NO . 18 li , & c . Delivered on various occasions at the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , No . 318 . IN the history of man there is nothing more remarkable
than that Masonry and civilization , like twin sisters , have gone hand-in-hand . The orders of architecture mark their growth and progress : dark , dreary , and comfortless were those days when Masonry had not laid her line nor extended her compass ; the race of Mankind , in full possession of wild and savage liberty , mutually afraid of and
offending each other , hid themselves in thickets of the wood , or in dens and caverns of the earth ; in those poor recesses and gloomy solitudes Masonry found them , and the Grand Geometrician of the Universe , pitying their forlorn situation , instructed them to build houses for their ease , defence , and comfort . It is easy to conceive , that in the early state of society , genius had expanded but little ; the first efforts were
small and the structure simple and rude—no more than a number of trees leaning together at the top in the form of a cone , interwoven with twigs , and plastered with mud to exclude the air and complete the work . In this early period we may suppose each desirous to render his own habitation more convenient than his
neighbour ' s , by improving on what had already been done ; thus , in time , observation assisting that natural sagacity , inherent even in uncultivated minds , led them to consider the inconveniences of the round sort of habitation , and to build others more spacious and convenient of the square form , by placing trunks of trees perpendicularly in the
ground to form the sides , filling the interstices between them with the branches closely woven and covered with clay ; horizontal beams were then placed on the upright trunks , which , being strongly joined at the angles , kept the sides firm , and likewise served to support the covering or roof of the building , composed of joists , on which were laid several beds of reeds , leaves , and clay . Yet rough and inelegant as these buildings were , they
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Rise Of The Five Orders Of Architecture.
THE RISE OF THE FIVE ORDERS OF ARCHITECTURE .
BY BRO . STEPHEN BARTON WILSON , P . M . CADOGAN . LODGE , NO . 18 li , & c . Delivered on various occasions at the Emulation Lodge of Improvement , No . 318 . IN the history of man there is nothing more remarkable
than that Masonry and civilization , like twin sisters , have gone hand-in-hand . The orders of architecture mark their growth and progress : dark , dreary , and comfortless were those days when Masonry had not laid her line nor extended her compass ; the race of Mankind , in full possession of wild and savage liberty , mutually afraid of and
offending each other , hid themselves in thickets of the wood , or in dens and caverns of the earth ; in those poor recesses and gloomy solitudes Masonry found them , and the Grand Geometrician of the Universe , pitying their forlorn situation , instructed them to build houses for their ease , defence , and comfort . It is easy to conceive , that in the early state of society , genius had expanded but little ; the first efforts were
small and the structure simple and rude—no more than a number of trees leaning together at the top in the form of a cone , interwoven with twigs , and plastered with mud to exclude the air and complete the work . In this early period we may suppose each desirous to render his own habitation more convenient than his
neighbour ' s , by improving on what had already been done ; thus , in time , observation assisting that natural sagacity , inherent even in uncultivated minds , led them to consider the inconveniences of the round sort of habitation , and to build others more spacious and convenient of the square form , by placing trunks of trees perpendicularly in the
ground to form the sides , filling the interstices between them with the branches closely woven and covered with clay ; horizontal beams were then placed on the upright trunks , which , being strongly joined at the angles , kept the sides firm , and likewise served to support the covering or roof of the building , composed of joists , on which were laid several beds of reeds , leaves , and clay . Yet rough and inelegant as these buildings were , they