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however much our country ' s enemies may try to ignore the fact , is more than any other capital , the centre of which all other countries take cognisance , we cannot but ask ourselves how did it grow ? YY'hat was its first origin ? Geoffrey of Monmouth ( as Stowe records in his " Survey of London " ) tells us that it was built first by " Brute , lineally descended

lino . Mi ; . Ions II . I ' II . KSI - ON , Wonsnii ' iH ' i . MASTKK . from ..-Eneas , about the year of the YY orlde 2855 , and 110 S before the Nativity of Christ . Neere unto the river now called Thames , and named it Trovnovant or Trenovant . "

Passing from this semi-mythical tradition we may certainly claim as YY ' elshmen that one of our fellow countrymen , Llucld , some two thousand years ago " renewed the cittie of London and called hitt aftere his owne name , Ludston , in British caer Lludd , and now by translation

of speache hitt is called London . " Thus Miss Marie Trevelyan quotes from the Records of the British Monarchs . In the " Mabinogwn " Lludd is represented as

lii .-o . lO . li . CI . KITOX , Hito . T . J . IIAIMIIKS , S . W . J . W . having " rebuilt the walls of London and encompassed it with numberless towers , and after that he bade the citizens build houses , such as no houses in the kingdom could equal . " And

we find Cynfelyn ap Tenefan , the Cymbeline of Shakespeare , saying" Set we forward : let "A Roman and a British Ensign wave "Friendly together : so through Luds-lowu march . "

Illlfl . W . W . Woos . viu , l . l ' . M . But not only did a YY ' elshman build for us our first London within walls—long before Lludd had " Dyvnwal Moelmud" given London its code of laws , the origin and

foundation of those by which we are governed to-day . Time will not allow me to dwell on this most interesting subject . To those who would see more about it and the ancient legends of the country we love so well , I would strongly recommend the perusal of a book called " The Land of Arthur , its Heroes and Heroines . " One only of the triads which she gives from the moelmutine laws would I

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. Hm . D . 11 . T _ KIIAI : _ K , Sl-: CI , 'I » TAKY .

quote and emphasise . Three elements of law are—Knowledge , National Right , Conscientiousness . YY'hat better Masonic precepts to set before our new lodge . Knowledge , the acquiring of which can only be compassed by diligence , perseverence , and the subjugation of our undisciplined thought to the teaching of others . Without a teacher , there can be

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no true knowledge . All have much to unlearn before they can acquire that spirit by which alone truth can be obtained . National Right—True patriotism , which labours for the good of the commonwealth , not for the advancement of personal ends . YY hich rests not satisfied with noisy declamations and

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silly shibboleths . YYHiich is not satisfied with talking about an historical past , but does something to make the Nation of to-day better , whose credentials are honest

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lino . THOMAS Hisns , A . D . C .