Francis Bacon and his secret society - Grand Lodge of Colorado

AND HIS SECRET SOCIETY. 327
edge uniting the scrolls, the ellipse which surrounds the mirror,
and the fleur-de-lis which surmounts the whole, we are again
hidden to confess that every good and perfect gift of genius, wit,
or knowledge comes from the great God who has created and
redeemed us, and who ever comforts, helps, and inspires us,
that we may glorify Him with our bodies and with our spirits,
which are His.
Returning for a minute to the bugles, we must say that it appears
incomprehensible how a paragraph such as the following
should be allowed to find its way into a book professedly instructive,
" founded upon lectures delivered at the London
Institution, " and thereby claiming a certain authority
" Post paper seems to have derived its name from the posthorn,
which, at one time, was its distinguishing mark. It does
not appear to have been used prior to the establishment of the
General Post-office (1670), when it became the custom to blow a
horn, to which circumstance, no doubt, we may attribute its
introduction."
The post-horn or bugle was, at the time of the establishment
of the post-office, more than three hundred and fifty years old.
Even supposing the writer to be speaking of the bugle or horn,
as used onlf in printed books, still it seems almost incredible
that an expert should be unaware of the presence of this same
"post-horn" in the works of Bacon thirty years before the
establishment of the post-office. As for the bugles or " posthorns
" in the writing-paper of Baconian correspondence, we
pass them lightly over, on account of their multitude, but some
specimens are given in the plates.
One more paper-mark, common in old religious books, is the
fool's-cap. There are, as usual, various forms, some resembling
a mitre, others diverging into distinct rays, five or seven,
which rays sometimes develop into coronets or radiant rising
suns.
The book before quoted proceeds to throw another sprinkling
of " puzzling dust " in
our eyes by the following observations
:
" The foolscap was a later device (than the jug or pot) and