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To The Provincial Members Of Grand Lodge.
to put an end to the " sic volo , sic jubeo" system . The close borough influence of the Dais , must be counteracted . Soon after the first appointment of the present Most Worshipful Grand Master , Dr . Crucefix gave notice of a motion to limit the office to a term of three , or five years . If he has refrained from following up his notice , deluded by a hope that matters would be better managed , than they had been latterlythe proceedings of last Wednesday must
, have convinced him of his error : the sooner the motion is again brought forward , and carried , the better . The present head of the Craft never has possessed the confidence of the brethren in general . He was elected by means of the metropolitan interest , and that interest exerted " per fas , et nefas . " And by that interest have he and his advisers been able to do as they like . But , if the most unbounded confidence had been placed in the Most Worshipful Grand Master , let me ask , whether
he is any longer deserving of it ? When a motion is brought forward striking at the very foundation of our bulwarks—when , to carry that measure , threats are resorted to—what confidence , what rational expectation , can we entertain , that , ere long , some other innovation will not be proposed , ancl carried . Now , brethren , let me conclude this feeble advocacy of our cause , by exhorting you to bear in mind Wednesday , the 6 th of December next . U or lukewarm ness
pon your energy , , it mainly depends , whether we shall have a new sovereign to preside over us—or remain in thraldom . But to have our masonic state well governed , it will not be sufficient to change our sovereign , W . H . Guizot and company must be put "hors de combat . " PHILO MASONICUS . London , 4 th March , 1848 .
Missiles From The Moon.
MISSILES FROM THE MOON .
HINTS TO INSURANCE COMPANIES . " IF , as we are inclined to assume , " says Brother Professor Nichol , in his Contemplations on the Solar System , " the phenomenon of the rays from the crater Tycho indicates a protrusion from below , through rents in the moon ' s crust—whence those rents ? They are not mere chancesor irregularities ; it is not as if the protruded matter onlfilled
, y a gap where it found it , a thing which happens so often with our own trap rocks . These rents proceed along great circles of our luminary , from Tycho as a central point ; they are , and can be no other than cracks , extending over a vast portion of its crust , produced by the convulsion which formed that stupendous chasm . The formation of the
rays and of the crater was therefore the same ; and the crater is the mere mouth or point of escape of some tremendous internal and eccentric force . And thus , at an early age in the history of the present crust of the moon , at least five thousand cubic miles of rock were displaced , and the solid surface in all directions rent , in one case through the length of one thousand seven hundred miles , by some terrific convulsion . And where is the displaced matter ? Making allowance for the wall and protrusions , some three thousand cubic miles of rock have disappeared from the moon , blown out at Tycho . Have they been drawn back by her attraction ? No such thing , the mass has gone into space , erupit ,
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To The Provincial Members Of Grand Lodge.
to put an end to the " sic volo , sic jubeo" system . The close borough influence of the Dais , must be counteracted . Soon after the first appointment of the present Most Worshipful Grand Master , Dr . Crucefix gave notice of a motion to limit the office to a term of three , or five years . If he has refrained from following up his notice , deluded by a hope that matters would be better managed , than they had been latterlythe proceedings of last Wednesday must
, have convinced him of his error : the sooner the motion is again brought forward , and carried , the better . The present head of the Craft never has possessed the confidence of the brethren in general . He was elected by means of the metropolitan interest , and that interest exerted " per fas , et nefas . " And by that interest have he and his advisers been able to do as they like . But , if the most unbounded confidence had been placed in the Most Worshipful Grand Master , let me ask , whether
he is any longer deserving of it ? When a motion is brought forward striking at the very foundation of our bulwarks—when , to carry that measure , threats are resorted to—what confidence , what rational expectation , can we entertain , that , ere long , some other innovation will not be proposed , ancl carried . Now , brethren , let me conclude this feeble advocacy of our cause , by exhorting you to bear in mind Wednesday , the 6 th of December next . U or lukewarm ness
pon your energy , , it mainly depends , whether we shall have a new sovereign to preside over us—or remain in thraldom . But to have our masonic state well governed , it will not be sufficient to change our sovereign , W . H . Guizot and company must be put "hors de combat . " PHILO MASONICUS . London , 4 th March , 1848 .
Missiles From The Moon.
MISSILES FROM THE MOON .
HINTS TO INSURANCE COMPANIES . " IF , as we are inclined to assume , " says Brother Professor Nichol , in his Contemplations on the Solar System , " the phenomenon of the rays from the crater Tycho indicates a protrusion from below , through rents in the moon ' s crust—whence those rents ? They are not mere chancesor irregularities ; it is not as if the protruded matter onlfilled
, y a gap where it found it , a thing which happens so often with our own trap rocks . These rents proceed along great circles of our luminary , from Tycho as a central point ; they are , and can be no other than cracks , extending over a vast portion of its crust , produced by the convulsion which formed that stupendous chasm . The formation of the
rays and of the crater was therefore the same ; and the crater is the mere mouth or point of escape of some tremendous internal and eccentric force . And thus , at an early age in the history of the present crust of the moon , at least five thousand cubic miles of rock were displaced , and the solid surface in all directions rent , in one case through the length of one thousand seven hundred miles , by some terrific convulsion . And where is the displaced matter ? Making allowance for the wall and protrusions , some three thousand cubic miles of rock have disappeared from the moon , blown out at Tycho . Have they been drawn back by her attraction ? No such thing , the mass has gone into space , erupit ,