Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

HUTCHINSON'S SPIRIT OF MASONRY. 127
doubt, since rocks were handled by architects,*) and the
vanity of the pretension sinks into the most lowly humility,
and its seeming falsehood is converted into self-evident
truth.
The Roman eagle did not,,like the royal arch, have being
before its parents, the Ramans, nor until some thousand
years after brick and mortar Mason? wore good sheep skin
aprons.
u The curious vulgar could never devise
" What social Free Masons so rapturously prize,
" No human conjecture, no study in schools:
* Such fruitless attempts are the efforts of fools."
AhimanRtxon.
CHAPTER XXI.
Prevarications of Free Masonry.
" Pray make no mistake,
u But true your joints break,
" And take care that you follow your leaders;
u Work, rake, back, and tueth,
11 And make your work smooth,
" And be sure that you fill up your headers."
Ahiman Rezon.
THE ceremonies and emblems of Masonry are indicative
of its origin and character. It began with labourers, men
* The newly initiatod brother is girded with the emblem of innocence,
more ancient than the tower of Babel, more honourable than the imperial
dignity.—Smith'* Masonry, p. 297.