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History Of Masonry.
as at Sicyon , Athens , Corinth , and the cities of Ionia , till they perfected their beautiful Doric , Ionic , and Corinthian orders . From this time we date the strict union between the Free and the Accepted Masons , which has subsisted ever since in all regular lodges , Greece now . abounded with the best architects , sculptors , statuaries , painters , and other fine designers , most of them educated at the academies of Athens and Sicyon . who instructed many artistsand
fel-, low crafts , to be the best operators upon earth : so that the nations of Asia and Africa , who had taught the Greeks , were now taught by them . No country but Greece could now boast of-such men as Mycon , Phidias , Demon , Androcides , Meton , Anaxagoras , Dipaenus and Scyllis , Glycon , Alcamehes , Praxiteles , Polycletus , Lysippus , Pefietis , Euphronor , Perseus , Philosfratus , Zeuxis , Apoilodorus ,
Parrhasius , Timanthes , Eupompus , Pamphihis , Apelies , Artemones , Socrates , Eudoxus , Metrodorus , who wrote of Masonry , and the excellent Theodorus Cyremeus , who amplified geometry , and published the art analytic , the master of the divine Plato , from whose school came Zenocrates , and Aristotle the preceptor of Alexander the Grear ' The Greeks rightly judging that the proportions in architecture should be taken from those of the human body , their painters and statuaries were esteemed architects : nor could they have been fine
painters without being architects . Hence it is , that several of those excellent painters and philosophers are in the list of antient architect ' s : nav , they all openly taught geometry , ancl many of them practised Masonry . They were generally at the head of the fraternity , highly useful to the fellow crafts , by their designs and drawings , and bred them up able artists : only , by a law in Greece , no slave was allowed to learn the seven liberal sciences , or those of the free-born ; so that
in Greece also they were called Free Masons , and , in their many lodges , the noble and learned were accepted as brothers . ' [ . Before "Christ 334 . _] Alexander , king of Macedon , having overcome Darius Codomanus at the Granicus , and in the battles of Issus andArbela , taking Tyre and Gaza , soon overrun all Egypt ; poor Darius fled into Bactria , and was murdered by Bessus , one of his own
Generals . After a continuance of 207 years , in him ended the Persian , and in Alexander began the Grecian empire . In one of Alexander ' s drunken frolics , he burnt the rich ancl splendid city of Perse-. jpolis , which was truly a city of palates in ' the best stile ; but all its beauty and splendour could not preserve it from the licentious ravages of this insolent disturber and common enemy of the Human race ; / who , however dignified by the epithet of Great , will not be allowed to rank in the list of true Masons .
" [ Before Christ 332 / 3 Nevertheless his architect , the renowned Denocrates before-mentioned , prevailed with him to undertake some Wand design , and to encourage the Fraternity : he proposed to him to dispose Mount Athos into ti-e form of that prince ' s statue , with a city in one hand , and iti the other a large lake to water that city ; but this great design never' took effect . The ambition o'f Alexander prompted him to build a new city in Egypt , in a very convenient place over-against the island of Pharos , which he called Alexandria , and which became the capital of that kingdom .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
History Of Masonry.
as at Sicyon , Athens , Corinth , and the cities of Ionia , till they perfected their beautiful Doric , Ionic , and Corinthian orders . From this time we date the strict union between the Free and the Accepted Masons , which has subsisted ever since in all regular lodges , Greece now . abounded with the best architects , sculptors , statuaries , painters , and other fine designers , most of them educated at the academies of Athens and Sicyon . who instructed many artistsand
fel-, low crafts , to be the best operators upon earth : so that the nations of Asia and Africa , who had taught the Greeks , were now taught by them . No country but Greece could now boast of-such men as Mycon , Phidias , Demon , Androcides , Meton , Anaxagoras , Dipaenus and Scyllis , Glycon , Alcamehes , Praxiteles , Polycletus , Lysippus , Pefietis , Euphronor , Perseus , Philosfratus , Zeuxis , Apoilodorus ,
Parrhasius , Timanthes , Eupompus , Pamphihis , Apelies , Artemones , Socrates , Eudoxus , Metrodorus , who wrote of Masonry , and the excellent Theodorus Cyremeus , who amplified geometry , and published the art analytic , the master of the divine Plato , from whose school came Zenocrates , and Aristotle the preceptor of Alexander the Grear ' The Greeks rightly judging that the proportions in architecture should be taken from those of the human body , their painters and statuaries were esteemed architects : nor could they have been fine
painters without being architects . Hence it is , that several of those excellent painters and philosophers are in the list of antient architect ' s : nav , they all openly taught geometry , ancl many of them practised Masonry . They were generally at the head of the fraternity , highly useful to the fellow crafts , by their designs and drawings , and bred them up able artists : only , by a law in Greece , no slave was allowed to learn the seven liberal sciences , or those of the free-born ; so that
in Greece also they were called Free Masons , and , in their many lodges , the noble and learned were accepted as brothers . ' [ . Before "Christ 334 . _] Alexander , king of Macedon , having overcome Darius Codomanus at the Granicus , and in the battles of Issus andArbela , taking Tyre and Gaza , soon overrun all Egypt ; poor Darius fled into Bactria , and was murdered by Bessus , one of his own
Generals . After a continuance of 207 years , in him ended the Persian , and in Alexander began the Grecian empire . In one of Alexander ' s drunken frolics , he burnt the rich ancl splendid city of Perse-. jpolis , which was truly a city of palates in ' the best stile ; but all its beauty and splendour could not preserve it from the licentious ravages of this insolent disturber and common enemy of the Human race ; / who , however dignified by the epithet of Great , will not be allowed to rank in the list of true Masons .
" [ Before Christ 332 / 3 Nevertheless his architect , the renowned Denocrates before-mentioned , prevailed with him to undertake some Wand design , and to encourage the Fraternity : he proposed to him to dispose Mount Athos into ti-e form of that prince ' s statue , with a city in one hand , and iti the other a large lake to water that city ; but this great design never' took effect . The ambition o'f Alexander prompted him to build a new city in Egypt , in a very convenient place over-against the island of Pharos , which he called Alexandria , and which became the capital of that kingdom .