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Du Role De La Francmaconnerie Dans L'Avenir.

au-dessous de sa tache ; il est impossible de dire que son labeur est accompli et termini , ou qu'il le sera lorsque telle ou telle reforme aura et _ realis 6 e . L'humanit 6 progresserasans cesse . C ' est sa loi . Quand cequi a longtemps ete cmsid 6 re

comme un ideal , se realise , les horizons plus larges d ' un ideal nouveau offrent ii l ' activite humaine , toujours en marche vers un meillenr avenir , de nouveaux champs d ' exploration , de nouvelles conquetes a faire , de nouvelles espeiances a , poursuivre . Le

jour ou l'humanite aurait atteint la derni . re limite du progres , si cette limite pouvaitetre atteinte , l'humanite aurait cesse d ' exister . Que serait , d ' ailleurs , pour les hommes , une existence sans esperances , sans activite ,, sans avenir ? Une telle situation , revee pourtant par quelques mystiques , ne saurait raisonnablemeut se concevoir .

La Francmaconnerie aura done toujours son role utile dans le monde . Nous somrnes certain qu ' elle le remplira dignement dans l ' avenir , comme elle l ' a dignement reinpli dans le passe , sans sortir de ses Ateliers , sans se meler aux agitations de la place

publique , et en conservant aveo soin la par esseutielle de ses mysteres qui sont le lien particulier des initi 6 s . Une association dont les membres se choisissent entre eux , pourconstituer une veritable famille et pour se livrer en commun a des etudes et

a des experiences determinees , ne pent ni ouvrir ses portes ii tout le monde , ni tonuses seances sur la place publique . Une association fraternellement intime , dont des groupes sont etablis dans tous les pays du monde , ne pent renoncer aux formes mystdrieuses qui permettent aux membres de ces divers groupes de se reconnaitre entre eux .

Dans les ages future , cette grande association restera ce qu ' elle a 6 te dans le passe : une 6 cole de pure morale , un laboratoire d'id . es nobles etgenereuses , unmodele d ' association fraternelle fondee sur l ' egalite des droits et des devoirs , un asile ouvert ii

toutes les consciences bounces , ii tous ceux qui aiment la justice , qui honorent le travail , qui reprouvent le despotisme et les violences ; ii tons les amis de I'hiunanite , a tous les hommes de progres et de bonne volonte .

Ceux qui pretendent que son role est fini , nous le rlpetons et nous eroyons Tavoir suffisamment demontre , ne counaissent pas notre institution . CAUBET .

Fairy Tales Utilised For The New Generation.

FAIRY TALES UTILISED FOR THE NEW GENERATION .

BY THEOPHILUS TOMLINSON . No . II . —BEAUTY AND THE BEAST . IT has been the fashion with some foolish persons to decry the taste and value of the old fairy talesAvhich so charmed us when

, we Avere young and verdant , blessed Avith good temper ancl better digestions , neither bored nor " blase " Avith the wear ancl tear of life , blinded by its dust , begrimed by its dirt , and altogether unlike those " dogs " Avhich have had "their day" slihtl

, gy morbid , and not a little dyspeptic . NOAV , I hold any such views and Dogmata as regards our old fairy tales , to be a rank heresy , and a heresy for which those who propound it ought to be excommunicated with " Bell , Book , and Candle , " handed

over to the tender mercies of some good " secular arm " and left to the fiery associations of an " auto da Fe . " For how interestingandyet IIOAV touching are those very fairy tales , so perversely arraigned , how true to nature , how reflective of humanity . Indeed it is I think , their extreme realism , so to say , despite allegory , their appeal to the true sense and " consensus" of humanity ,

which have commended them so much to generations—if you please—of the credulous and the contented . I am quite aware that certain grave moralists do not approve of fairy tales , and that on the ground too , of their being not " absolutely true . " Now I

for one do not agree with any such objections , and I will give you my reason why . Admitted if you please that " prima facie , " all teaching Avith a professed moral aim , should be based on truth , actuality , reality , yet if such a " Canon " of didactic

exposition is to be laid down , as alike unchangeable and unvarying , IIOAV much of the parabolic Avisdom of the world must at once be laid aside , IIOAV much , I repeat , of the teaching most pleasant to the imagination and mind of man , most easily received , and most

rapidly digested must be utterl y ignored and surrendered . The truth is , that no one can really safely lay down any such irreversible or infallible a law of instruction , and therefore fairy parables like all allegorical lore , may be fairly used and judiciously employed as much to move as to influence , to touch , to soften , and

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Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 3
THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY THORN OF GLASTONBURY. Article 4
"THE HOLY THORN." Article 10
BROTHER ELLIS'S SKETCH OF PARADISE R.A. CHAPTER , SHEFFIELD. Article 11
SONNET Article 13
SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR PEACEFUL SOLUTION. Article 13
AN ITALIAN COUNT. Article 16
NOTES ON THE OLD MINUTE BOOKS OF THE BRITISH UNION LODGE, No. 114, IPSWICH. A.D. 1762. Article 19
SEA-SIDE DREAMINGS. Article 22
THE WOMEN OF OUR TIME. Article 22
HOW RAILWAY MATERIALS ARE TESTED. Article 24
T' SPELLIN' BEE. Article 26
DU ROLE DE LA FRANCMACONNERIE DANS L'AVENIR. Article 26
FAIRY TALES UTILISED FOR THE NEW GENERATION. Article 28
ODDS AND ENDS OF WIT AND HUMOUR. Article 30
CONTEMPORARY LETTERS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Article 37
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 39
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART. Article 47
THE OLD FRIENDS. Article 50
GOLD. Article 50
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Du Role De La Francmaconnerie Dans L'Avenir.

au-dessous de sa tache ; il est impossible de dire que son labeur est accompli et termini , ou qu'il le sera lorsque telle ou telle reforme aura et _ realis 6 e . L'humanit 6 progresserasans cesse . C ' est sa loi . Quand cequi a longtemps ete cmsid 6 re

comme un ideal , se realise , les horizons plus larges d ' un ideal nouveau offrent ii l ' activite humaine , toujours en marche vers un meillenr avenir , de nouveaux champs d ' exploration , de nouvelles conquetes a faire , de nouvelles espeiances a , poursuivre . Le

jour ou l'humanite aurait atteint la derni . re limite du progres , si cette limite pouvaitetre atteinte , l'humanite aurait cesse d ' exister . Que serait , d ' ailleurs , pour les hommes , une existence sans esperances , sans activite ,, sans avenir ? Une telle situation , revee pourtant par quelques mystiques , ne saurait raisonnablemeut se concevoir .

La Francmaconnerie aura done toujours son role utile dans le monde . Nous somrnes certain qu ' elle le remplira dignement dans l ' avenir , comme elle l ' a dignement reinpli dans le passe , sans sortir de ses Ateliers , sans se meler aux agitations de la place

publique , et en conservant aveo soin la par esseutielle de ses mysteres qui sont le lien particulier des initi 6 s . Une association dont les membres se choisissent entre eux , pourconstituer une veritable famille et pour se livrer en commun a des etudes et

a des experiences determinees , ne pent ni ouvrir ses portes ii tout le monde , ni tonuses seances sur la place publique . Une association fraternellement intime , dont des groupes sont etablis dans tous les pays du monde , ne pent renoncer aux formes mystdrieuses qui permettent aux membres de ces divers groupes de se reconnaitre entre eux .

Dans les ages future , cette grande association restera ce qu ' elle a 6 te dans le passe : une 6 cole de pure morale , un laboratoire d'id . es nobles etgenereuses , unmodele d ' association fraternelle fondee sur l ' egalite des droits et des devoirs , un asile ouvert ii

toutes les consciences bounces , ii tous ceux qui aiment la justice , qui honorent le travail , qui reprouvent le despotisme et les violences ; ii tons les amis de I'hiunanite , a tous les hommes de progres et de bonne volonte .

Ceux qui pretendent que son role est fini , nous le rlpetons et nous eroyons Tavoir suffisamment demontre , ne counaissent pas notre institution . CAUBET .

Fairy Tales Utilised For The New Generation.

FAIRY TALES UTILISED FOR THE NEW GENERATION .

BY THEOPHILUS TOMLINSON . No . II . —BEAUTY AND THE BEAST . IT has been the fashion with some foolish persons to decry the taste and value of the old fairy talesAvhich so charmed us when

, we Avere young and verdant , blessed Avith good temper ancl better digestions , neither bored nor " blase " Avith the wear ancl tear of life , blinded by its dust , begrimed by its dirt , and altogether unlike those " dogs " Avhich have had "their day" slihtl

, gy morbid , and not a little dyspeptic . NOAV , I hold any such views and Dogmata as regards our old fairy tales , to be a rank heresy , and a heresy for which those who propound it ought to be excommunicated with " Bell , Book , and Candle , " handed

over to the tender mercies of some good " secular arm " and left to the fiery associations of an " auto da Fe . " For how interestingandyet IIOAV touching are those very fairy tales , so perversely arraigned , how true to nature , how reflective of humanity . Indeed it is I think , their extreme realism , so to say , despite allegory , their appeal to the true sense and " consensus" of humanity ,

which have commended them so much to generations—if you please—of the credulous and the contented . I am quite aware that certain grave moralists do not approve of fairy tales , and that on the ground too , of their being not " absolutely true . " Now I

for one do not agree with any such objections , and I will give you my reason why . Admitted if you please that " prima facie , " all teaching Avith a professed moral aim , should be based on truth , actuality , reality , yet if such a " Canon " of didactic

exposition is to be laid down , as alike unchangeable and unvarying , IIOAV much of the parabolic Avisdom of the world must at once be laid aside , IIOAV much , I repeat , of the teaching most pleasant to the imagination and mind of man , most easily received , and most

rapidly digested must be utterl y ignored and surrendered . The truth is , that no one can really safely lay down any such irreversible or infallible a law of instruction , and therefore fairy parables like all allegorical lore , may be fairly used and judiciously employed as much to move as to influence , to touch , to soften , and

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