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The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
of the population of this so-called Christian country to a state of semi-barbarism . For our own part , we are convinced , that in a country like England , with its numerous free and noble institutions , giving birth to and cherishing an independence of thought
and action , no system of universal application , kept within due limits by the authority of law , can ever be devised . And , if we look carefully at what has already been effected by the spontaneous efforts of a well-directed philanthropy , we shall be convinced that it is only on the enlargement of this
field of action that the most stable hopes for the future can be built . The great want is not a combination of men of all shades of opinion , and who cannot , therefore , have a common and enduring principle of action , but of bodies of men united together by convictions , and sympathies springing out of
principles common to them all , and who are prepared to move as in a compact and solid phalanx , animated by one spirit , to the accomplishment of the object , which they have set before them .
If our readers share in these views , and they , —of all bodies in the world , —have had the most indubitable proofs of the certainty of the basis , on which their principles are built , they will be prepared for the application , which we are about to make of them .
Without , therefore , any circumlocution , or labored argument , , we say at once , that , in connection with the developement of the Divine principle of Charity , —a principle which lies at the very root of our Order , and by which the Fraternity has . been distinguished from the earliest period to the present
hour , we have at this moment a NECESSITY , —a stern , unmistakeable , and peremptory NECESSITY—to contend with , and , in due time , to fulfil . That necessity , as we have indicated by the title , given to this article , is , — A SCHOOL EOR ODE BOYS !
Whilst nominally under our fostering wing , the objects of this charity , in reality—and as far , at least , as those residing at a distance from the metropolis are still concerned — have
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The Feeemasons' Quarterly Magazine And Review.
of the population of this so-called Christian country to a state of semi-barbarism . For our own part , we are convinced , that in a country like England , with its numerous free and noble institutions , giving birth to and cherishing an independence of thought
and action , no system of universal application , kept within due limits by the authority of law , can ever be devised . And , if we look carefully at what has already been effected by the spontaneous efforts of a well-directed philanthropy , we shall be convinced that it is only on the enlargement of this
field of action that the most stable hopes for the future can be built . The great want is not a combination of men of all shades of opinion , and who cannot , therefore , have a common and enduring principle of action , but of bodies of men united together by convictions , and sympathies springing out of
principles common to them all , and who are prepared to move as in a compact and solid phalanx , animated by one spirit , to the accomplishment of the object , which they have set before them .
If our readers share in these views , and they , —of all bodies in the world , —have had the most indubitable proofs of the certainty of the basis , on which their principles are built , they will be prepared for the application , which we are about to make of them .
Without , therefore , any circumlocution , or labored argument , , we say at once , that , in connection with the developement of the Divine principle of Charity , —a principle which lies at the very root of our Order , and by which the Fraternity has . been distinguished from the earliest period to the present
hour , we have at this moment a NECESSITY , —a stern , unmistakeable , and peremptory NECESSITY—to contend with , and , in due time , to fulfil . That necessity , as we have indicated by the title , given to this article , is , — A SCHOOL EOR ODE BOYS !
Whilst nominally under our fostering wing , the objects of this charity , in reality—and as far , at least , as those residing at a distance from the metropolis are still concerned — have