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Masonic Didactics; Or, Short Moral Essays Of Universal Adaptation.
healthy winch , in retirement , is not influenced to embrace it by a mere fickle whim of tlie hour , or some morbid impressions , but by a moral force ; either a purpose thereb y to confer a superior benefit upon our fellow creatures , which the frivolous requirements of the gay circles of society would not permit , or to separate ourselves from those contaminations which unfit an immortal spirit from holding that sweet communion with its Makerwithout whichlife to would be
, , some a burthen and a Wank . A celebrated writer of the present day says— " it is the active mmd alone which can bear retirement and solitude . " This proposition involving an apparent contradiction , is elucidated by the saying of the illustrious Cicero or rather adopted by him from Cato , who wrote it as the remark of Pubhus Scipio :- " Nunquam se minus otiosum esse , quam cum otiosus ; nee minus solum , quam cum solus esset . "
NO . XXXII .-EXCELLENCE ATTAINABLE BY INCESSANT APPLICATION . Vis magna voeem emittit , at major tenet . —SENECA . The power of the human mind , like most other organic systems is susceptible of greater or less expansion of its
action ? ami Sue ive accordingly , of greater or less results . Too strong a tension ofTtsS ? . Eff 1 f \ ° < - i ClneSS _ , Y hile too slight an exercise of its power Ses it faU short of subs antially useful attainments , and no cultivation of its energies produces either imbecility or barbarori i gnorance The natural 3 ™ t v S 00 d STSe . ° f SOme minds ^ exceptions to tie common rule which governs the intellectual system . _ With respect to excellence in any art or science , wherp m . ^™„„ i „ te fAe
„ , „ 3 oX ^ - ^ ° mfa ! iWavaa ;^ d ^^ 'a Se StandardT w' £ T 'J S C 6 rtaM y not ca P ° nyiei standaid , but , if eminence be the object of our desire the most strenuous application , even of a vigorous mind , wnfhe requisite for great ends can onl y be attained by gre ° at measures ; wl ch too must t ^ Tffiflf ° ^ , " t 0 , TP 0 rtance of tIle P ^ ticular object in vlw -the difficulty of the undertaking , or the depth of intellect and skHful management that object demandIf
may . we seek to acquire knowledg e perfectl y and easily , we must begin with the fundamental elemenfs augmenting our diligence and attention the farther we proceed " v step we take advances us to the EvpriKa , and the mi ^ nf L . i'T 7 i our talents or cominodit es into gold . The iudmet . . g £ XL ^ Sv ^ stSSln ^ tiS % £
____ , _ l . ti .. si , given b , experience , ^ iUtt ^^ S ^ S ^ SiSm f— % ' y " »? " ?'" . " ™ i « ' » » l » e »™ e ' ™ . « nrS , Ss ™ , _ = sstszx Lrst ^^ ' ^ dz ^ JsiMs ^ -
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Didactics; Or, Short Moral Essays Of Universal Adaptation.
healthy winch , in retirement , is not influenced to embrace it by a mere fickle whim of tlie hour , or some morbid impressions , but by a moral force ; either a purpose thereb y to confer a superior benefit upon our fellow creatures , which the frivolous requirements of the gay circles of society would not permit , or to separate ourselves from those contaminations which unfit an immortal spirit from holding that sweet communion with its Makerwithout whichlife to would be
, , some a burthen and a Wank . A celebrated writer of the present day says— " it is the active mmd alone which can bear retirement and solitude . " This proposition involving an apparent contradiction , is elucidated by the saying of the illustrious Cicero or rather adopted by him from Cato , who wrote it as the remark of Pubhus Scipio :- " Nunquam se minus otiosum esse , quam cum otiosus ; nee minus solum , quam cum solus esset . "
NO . XXXII .-EXCELLENCE ATTAINABLE BY INCESSANT APPLICATION . Vis magna voeem emittit , at major tenet . —SENECA . The power of the human mind , like most other organic systems is susceptible of greater or less expansion of its
action ? ami Sue ive accordingly , of greater or less results . Too strong a tension ofTtsS ? . Eff 1 f \ ° < - i ClneSS _ , Y hile too slight an exercise of its power Ses it faU short of subs antially useful attainments , and no cultivation of its energies produces either imbecility or barbarori i gnorance The natural 3 ™ t v S 00 d STSe . ° f SOme minds ^ exceptions to tie common rule which governs the intellectual system . _ With respect to excellence in any art or science , wherp m . ^™„„ i „ te fAe
„ , „ 3 oX ^ - ^ ° mfa ! iWavaa ;^ d ^^ 'a Se StandardT w' £ T 'J S C 6 rtaM y not ca P ° nyiei standaid , but , if eminence be the object of our desire the most strenuous application , even of a vigorous mind , wnfhe requisite for great ends can onl y be attained by gre ° at measures ; wl ch too must t ^ Tffiflf ° ^ , " t 0 , TP 0 rtance of tIle P ^ ticular object in vlw -the difficulty of the undertaking , or the depth of intellect and skHful management that object demandIf
may . we seek to acquire knowledg e perfectl y and easily , we must begin with the fundamental elemenfs augmenting our diligence and attention the farther we proceed " v step we take advances us to the EvpriKa , and the mi ^ nf L . i'T 7 i our talents or cominodit es into gold . The iudmet . . g £ XL ^ Sv ^ stSSln ^ tiS % £
____ , _ l . ti .. si , given b , experience , ^ iUtt ^^ S ^ S ^ SiSm f— % ' y " »? " ?'" . " ™ i « ' » » l » e »™ e ' ™ . « nrS , Ss ™ , _ = sstszx Lrst ^^ ' ^ dz ^ JsiMs ^ -