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tion to Masonry has been " suspension , " because he would not falsify his honour , by replying to questions { we have seen them ) which stamp with indelible censure those who devised them . Unfortunately , his sensitive heart regarded that " suspension " as a disgrace , which , inflicted for such a reason , should justly have been deemed an honour . Ingratitude , sharper than a serpent ' s tooth : " " more keen than traitor ' s sword , quite vanquished him ; " the blow given , in payment for long
and faithful service , by the fraternity ( No ) Heaven forbid that we should confound the Craft with a clique !) crushed him by meanness and injustice , and one of the worthiest of our Order is known in his place no more ! Peace and reverence be to him I Our acquaintance with him was the growth of many years , and we feel we echo the feeling of Oxford , when we say that Bro . Blake has left his memory to the admiration , and his persecutors to the contempt and animadversion , of all good men . — -Ed . P . M . and M . M . ]
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MONTHLY MAGAZINE . Sir , —It may be in your recollection that some months since , it was proposed in Grand Lodge to publish a small pocket edition of the " Book of Constitutions . " This proposition was carried by an overwhelming majority , and I have , in common with my Brethren , looked anxiously for this long promised edition , feeling confident that it will prove of the most essential service to the Craft . I trust the delay is not on account of the influence of any of the minority , some of whom are known to revel in the " purple , " as such proceeding would be treating the large majority with , not only disrespect , but contempt .
I hope you will call the attention of the " powers that be " to that great desi deratum , a pocket edition of the " Book of Constitutions . " I am yours fraternally , Enquirer .
Bonaparte Family . —There is no fable in all the Arabian Nights apparently more fabulous than the story of the Bonaparte family . That this romance has , however , realized itself in the quiet , sober days of our modern era , must be regarded as a great fact in history , and as a piece of great good fortune . The history of humanity , clogged with political precedent and paralysed by bureaus and red tape , has thereby been shaken with earthquake force into fresh activity , and flushed with new life , and man has been shown to he stronger than a supposed political necessity . Human power and human passion have been freed from the
spell under which the traditional limitations of rank had bound them , and it has been proved that the individual , though born among the dust , may become anything and everything , because men are equal . That the history of the Bonapartes should appear fabulous is the fault of the mediaeval tinge that still attaches to our ideas of life , and of the received notions as to the impassable barriers interposed by social difference . Napoleon is the political Faust . His historical greatness does not lie in his battles , but in his revolutionary nature . He overthrew the political gods of tradition . The history of this predestined man is therefore very simple , human , and natural , but it cannot yet bo written . — Wanderings in Corsica .
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Correspondence.
tion to Masonry has been " suspension , " because he would not falsify his honour , by replying to questions { we have seen them ) which stamp with indelible censure those who devised them . Unfortunately , his sensitive heart regarded that " suspension " as a disgrace , which , inflicted for such a reason , should justly have been deemed an honour . Ingratitude , sharper than a serpent ' s tooth : " " more keen than traitor ' s sword , quite vanquished him ; " the blow given , in payment for long
and faithful service , by the fraternity ( No ) Heaven forbid that we should confound the Craft with a clique !) crushed him by meanness and injustice , and one of the worthiest of our Order is known in his place no more ! Peace and reverence be to him I Our acquaintance with him was the growth of many years , and we feel we echo the feeling of Oxford , when we say that Bro . Blake has left his memory to the admiration , and his persecutors to the contempt and animadversion , of all good men . — -Ed . P . M . and M . M . ]
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' MONTHLY MAGAZINE . Sir , —It may be in your recollection that some months since , it was proposed in Grand Lodge to publish a small pocket edition of the " Book of Constitutions . " This proposition was carried by an overwhelming majority , and I have , in common with my Brethren , looked anxiously for this long promised edition , feeling confident that it will prove of the most essential service to the Craft . I trust the delay is not on account of the influence of any of the minority , some of whom are known to revel in the " purple , " as such proceeding would be treating the large majority with , not only disrespect , but contempt .
I hope you will call the attention of the " powers that be " to that great desi deratum , a pocket edition of the " Book of Constitutions . " I am yours fraternally , Enquirer .
Bonaparte Family . —There is no fable in all the Arabian Nights apparently more fabulous than the story of the Bonaparte family . That this romance has , however , realized itself in the quiet , sober days of our modern era , must be regarded as a great fact in history , and as a piece of great good fortune . The history of humanity , clogged with political precedent and paralysed by bureaus and red tape , has thereby been shaken with earthquake force into fresh activity , and flushed with new life , and man has been shown to he stronger than a supposed political necessity . Human power and human passion have been freed from the
spell under which the traditional limitations of rank had bound them , and it has been proved that the individual , though born among the dust , may become anything and everything , because men are equal . That the history of the Bonapartes should appear fabulous is the fault of the mediaeval tinge that still attaches to our ideas of life , and of the received notions as to the impassable barriers interposed by social difference . Napoleon is the political Faust . His historical greatness does not lie in his battles , but in his revolutionary nature . He overthrew the political gods of tradition . The history of this predestined man is therefore very simple , human , and natural , but it cannot yet bo written . — Wanderings in Corsica .