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sorrow , but also suggest the deepest incentive to arouse that dormant energy , to awake that sleeping power , which , once fairly developed and set in action , can for good , holy , true , loving purposes , revolutionize the world . England is u set on a hill , " and guides the world . The Masons of England have numbers , wealth , and undreamt of power . They only want truthful appreciation of the facts which environ humanity , to make England , and , through England the world , wiser and better . The study of the sciences , Masonry ' s ¦
own ' '' perfect seven , " will alone supply this truthful appreciation of facts . The sciences , therefore , must be studied , not merely be recommended to be studied . And to this end our Lodge machinery would be most useful . Libraries must be established for study ; lectures to direct , clear , or suggest study Lodges for discussion , for argument , and primarily for initiation into Masonic mysteries . Only one thing more is needful—let the scientific views inculcated be as broad as , and if possible , even broader than Masonic
theology . Let truth be , so far as it is known , simply and clearly taught , all old fhshioned errors or fanciful ideas being rigidly excluded ; and , then , when Masons find that they can learn what , as men , they want to know , viz ., the laws of nature , of life , of health , and happiness , as alone happiness can exist— -in the uniqn of truth , health and morality—there will be no lack of attendance at Lodges of Instruction ; but there will grow up families of Brothers skilled and delighting to diffuse everywhere the grandest charity—a knowledge of health , morality and truth .
Here is real workfbr all true Masons . The wise can collate , write , teach , ; the unlearned can be made able to help or instruct others or themselves ; the man of science can elaborate the easiest statements of truth ; the physician the simplest exposition of the laws of health ; the architect also , learning of the physician , can design the dwellings which may best replace
the pesthouses in which our humbler millions now live—and he may , besides , elevate the taste of all by appropriate exhibitions of pure , refining , and ennobling architecture ; the mathematician may simplify calculations , and estimate the statistics of life and death , ignorance and science , crime and happiness , and usher in a thousand harmonious combinations which will result from mathematical study ; and the musician may gladden life with soul cheering or spirit stirring melodies . Let Masonry be indeed a reality , and it may revolutionize the world to peace and harmony . No other association , depending as all others do , some on one jarring element of discord , some on another , for their vitality , can ever be expected to effect as much . Masonry in its true , whole , and
scientific aspect , is the hope of the world . And its first work , resulting from these scientific additions , might be of a true Masonic character . The dwellings of the poor might be rendered capable of containing decent and moral human beings . This might be Masonry ' s great work , of the present day . Had it formerly expended for the body the energies it put forth in hopes of benefiting the soul , as in its splendid cathedrals , how great might have been its glory L It is not
too late . Let the brotherhood think of the bodies as well as the soufe of our poor brethren . It would be idle to dwell on the urgent necessitv for this , had not widely-read journals like the Times with senile forgetfiiiness or astounding ignorance of fact , declared the work done , and model
cottages" the rule . The poor are still herded together worse than swine in a well ordered farm yard . Whole families , young , old , and adults , have one and the same sleeping chamber ; and each cottage , each sleeping room , i « a hotbed of physical and moral contamination . The simplest appeal to experience in any district in England will prove that , in the mighty aggregate , the facts are literally too loathsome to be further alluded to . Might
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G011esfoidei6e
sorrow , but also suggest the deepest incentive to arouse that dormant energy , to awake that sleeping power , which , once fairly developed and set in action , can for good , holy , true , loving purposes , revolutionize the world . England is u set on a hill , " and guides the world . The Masons of England have numbers , wealth , and undreamt of power . They only want truthful appreciation of the facts which environ humanity , to make England , and , through England the world , wiser and better . The study of the sciences , Masonry ' s ¦
own ' '' perfect seven , " will alone supply this truthful appreciation of facts . The sciences , therefore , must be studied , not merely be recommended to be studied . And to this end our Lodge machinery would be most useful . Libraries must be established for study ; lectures to direct , clear , or suggest study Lodges for discussion , for argument , and primarily for initiation into Masonic mysteries . Only one thing more is needful—let the scientific views inculcated be as broad as , and if possible , even broader than Masonic
theology . Let truth be , so far as it is known , simply and clearly taught , all old fhshioned errors or fanciful ideas being rigidly excluded ; and , then , when Masons find that they can learn what , as men , they want to know , viz ., the laws of nature , of life , of health , and happiness , as alone happiness can exist— -in the uniqn of truth , health and morality—there will be no lack of attendance at Lodges of Instruction ; but there will grow up families of Brothers skilled and delighting to diffuse everywhere the grandest charity—a knowledge of health , morality and truth .
Here is real workfbr all true Masons . The wise can collate , write , teach , ; the unlearned can be made able to help or instruct others or themselves ; the man of science can elaborate the easiest statements of truth ; the physician the simplest exposition of the laws of health ; the architect also , learning of the physician , can design the dwellings which may best replace
the pesthouses in which our humbler millions now live—and he may , besides , elevate the taste of all by appropriate exhibitions of pure , refining , and ennobling architecture ; the mathematician may simplify calculations , and estimate the statistics of life and death , ignorance and science , crime and happiness , and usher in a thousand harmonious combinations which will result from mathematical study ; and the musician may gladden life with soul cheering or spirit stirring melodies . Let Masonry be indeed a reality , and it may revolutionize the world to peace and harmony . No other association , depending as all others do , some on one jarring element of discord , some on another , for their vitality , can ever be expected to effect as much . Masonry in its true , whole , and
scientific aspect , is the hope of the world . And its first work , resulting from these scientific additions , might be of a true Masonic character . The dwellings of the poor might be rendered capable of containing decent and moral human beings . This might be Masonry ' s great work , of the present day . Had it formerly expended for the body the energies it put forth in hopes of benefiting the soul , as in its splendid cathedrals , how great might have been its glory L It is not
too late . Let the brotherhood think of the bodies as well as the soufe of our poor brethren . It would be idle to dwell on the urgent necessitv for this , had not widely-read journals like the Times with senile forgetfiiiness or astounding ignorance of fact , declared the work done , and model
cottages" the rule . The poor are still herded together worse than swine in a well ordered farm yard . Whole families , young , old , and adults , have one and the same sleeping chamber ; and each cottage , each sleeping room , i « a hotbed of physical and moral contamination . The simplest appeal to experience in any district in England will prove that , in the mighty aggregate , the facts are literally too loathsome to be further alluded to . Might