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Article THE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY REVIEW. ← Page 2 of 10 →
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The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
disarm critical ascerbity , or of anticipating fallacious reasoning on constructive treason , by requesting that opinion should be suspended in such precise terms as these : — " With the new year we shall put forth our strength , and , we trust , evince some improvement in the original design ,
untrammelled by previous arrangements . Until then , let our task be considered more mechanical than mental—more the province of compilation than the exercise of editorial judgment . " Who could have supposed that , under such retrospective circumstances , and with such an existing declaration , a
prospective attack would be fulminated against this publication ? Who could have imagined that the errors of others—even if those errors had not been pardonable or defensible on the ground of provocation , or had not otherwise been atoned for—would be visited upon the innocent , in a vain attempt to restrict the utility , or to lessen the
circulation of a work that is indispensable to Freemasonry ? We distinctly avow , that it was our preconceived intention so to conduct the Freemasons' Quarterly JRevieiv , commencing with the present number , as to keep clearly within the spirit of the Masonic law , as expressed in the
Book of the Constituti ' ons , and even within the letter if it were possible . And we shall not be moved from this , our determination , by the inconsiderate conduct of those who have presumed to sit in judgment upon us , and to pre-judge and misconstrue our acts . As the best evidence
of the purity of our motives , and the sincerity of our intentions , we will not be provoked into the adoption of a different course by the brutum fulmen of inconsequent resolutions . This first , and unwise attempt to assimilate Masonic with Legislative deliberations , in fruitless
declarations of vague breaches of privilege , and singular deviations in the exercise of such undefined power , shall , as far as we are concerned , be as harmless as they are irrational .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Freemasons' Quarterly Review.
disarm critical ascerbity , or of anticipating fallacious reasoning on constructive treason , by requesting that opinion should be suspended in such precise terms as these : — " With the new year we shall put forth our strength , and , we trust , evince some improvement in the original design ,
untrammelled by previous arrangements . Until then , let our task be considered more mechanical than mental—more the province of compilation than the exercise of editorial judgment . " Who could have supposed that , under such retrospective circumstances , and with such an existing declaration , a
prospective attack would be fulminated against this publication ? Who could have imagined that the errors of others—even if those errors had not been pardonable or defensible on the ground of provocation , or had not otherwise been atoned for—would be visited upon the innocent , in a vain attempt to restrict the utility , or to lessen the
circulation of a work that is indispensable to Freemasonry ? We distinctly avow , that it was our preconceived intention so to conduct the Freemasons' Quarterly JRevieiv , commencing with the present number , as to keep clearly within the spirit of the Masonic law , as expressed in the
Book of the Constituti ' ons , and even within the letter if it were possible . And we shall not be moved from this , our determination , by the inconsiderate conduct of those who have presumed to sit in judgment upon us , and to pre-judge and misconstrue our acts . As the best evidence
of the purity of our motives , and the sincerity of our intentions , we will not be provoked into the adoption of a different course by the brutum fulmen of inconsequent resolutions . This first , and unwise attempt to assimilate Masonic with Legislative deliberations , in fruitless
declarations of vague breaches of privilege , and singular deviations in the exercise of such undefined power , shall , as far as we are concerned , be as harmless as they are irrational .