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The Literature Of Freemasonry.
THE LITERATURE OF FREEMASONRY .
THERE is hi the last number of the Freemasons Monthly Magazine , an article so remarkable in style ancl sentiment , that to use the language of H . R . H . Hamlet , Prince of Denmark , ive deem it " writ down in our dut y " to make a brief allusion to it . The paper in question bears an interrogative title , and affects to soli'e the knotty problem " What is Masonry doing
for intellectual progress ? " After some common-place , and , sooth to say , not over wise platitudes about the selfishness and utilitarianism of the present age , when " even the amenities and courtesies of life are weighed before they are dispensed , in the scales of profit and loss , and when friendship is valued by how much it will fetch , "—the author waxes wrath againt the Masons , ancl comes down like a wolf on that very fold of ivhose
honour ancl interests he assumes to be the peculiar and exclusive guardian . He accuses them of not fostering " the intellectual expansion of the age " ( whatever that may mean ) and roundly asserts that " the
Fraternity is constrained to admit itself sluggish ancl inefficient towards the mental development of the people . " The public will be curious to learn by what facts and figures the author makes good an assertion so damaging to the fair fame of Masonry ; ancl , here we can promise our readers that Ave have an agreeable surprise in store for them . HOAV great must be their astonishment , when Ave assure them that the writer proceeds to
illustrate Ms position by a reference , not to the Masonic " schools , " nor jet to those " nobly maintained endowments , which reflect a lustre on our ancient Order , " but—of all things in the world—to " the publications connected with the Craft . " Now , inasmuch as " the publications connected with the Craft" were confined , as far as periodical literature is concerned , for one-and-tweniy years to the serial formerly published under the title of
The Freemasons Quarterly Revieio and noiv known as the The Treemasons Monthly Magazine , it is as clear as sunlight in the tropics , that it is to his own pages that our author appeals for testimony to support Ms charge . Our readers are familiar with the old story of the Temperance E
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Literature Of Freemasonry.
THE LITERATURE OF FREEMASONRY .
THERE is hi the last number of the Freemasons Monthly Magazine , an article so remarkable in style ancl sentiment , that to use the language of H . R . H . Hamlet , Prince of Denmark , ive deem it " writ down in our dut y " to make a brief allusion to it . The paper in question bears an interrogative title , and affects to soli'e the knotty problem " What is Masonry doing
for intellectual progress ? " After some common-place , and , sooth to say , not over wise platitudes about the selfishness and utilitarianism of the present age , when " even the amenities and courtesies of life are weighed before they are dispensed , in the scales of profit and loss , and when friendship is valued by how much it will fetch , "—the author waxes wrath againt the Masons , ancl comes down like a wolf on that very fold of ivhose
honour ancl interests he assumes to be the peculiar and exclusive guardian . He accuses them of not fostering " the intellectual expansion of the age " ( whatever that may mean ) and roundly asserts that " the
Fraternity is constrained to admit itself sluggish ancl inefficient towards the mental development of the people . " The public will be curious to learn by what facts and figures the author makes good an assertion so damaging to the fair fame of Masonry ; ancl , here we can promise our readers that Ave have an agreeable surprise in store for them . HOAV great must be their astonishment , when Ave assure them that the writer proceeds to
illustrate Ms position by a reference , not to the Masonic " schools , " nor jet to those " nobly maintained endowments , which reflect a lustre on our ancient Order , " but—of all things in the world—to " the publications connected with the Craft . " Now , inasmuch as " the publications connected with the Craft" were confined , as far as periodical literature is concerned , for one-and-tweniy years to the serial formerly published under the title of
The Freemasons Quarterly Revieio and noiv known as the The Treemasons Monthly Magazine , it is as clear as sunlight in the tropics , that it is to his own pages that our author appeals for testimony to support Ms charge . Our readers are familiar with the old story of the Temperance E