Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-10-26

mids,--have all been the york Of Pbysi
) cal Masonry. For this, the Plumb, ,h'
Rule, the Line, the Compass, the Square
; were invented, and applied to the modi
fications ofmatter.
r There have been Masonic ereciions or
this earth SO beautiful and lovely, thai
the hearlless spectre Of Time, as he stood
on them with foot Of mildew. looked
back upon the piles too magnificent for
ruin, and Antiquity seized his toreIock,
that never before turned backward!
Egypt to this day may be read in her
stupendous TemainS--so can Greece
so can Rome! The Appian way that
bound the city Of the Caesars TO The ex.
tremites ofan empire that reached from
the pillars OF Hercules and Britain. in the
west, 10 the straits of Babelmandel, in the
east, with the other great military roads
dIverging from the great seat bf power,
wero all the work of Physical Masonry!
The triumphs of the arts in modern
times have disanced the p-oudest a.
chieVements ofthe past-not in colossal
bulk, or enduring soIidity, but IN the per
fection of utility, the concentration of
power, and the adaptation Of purpose
New properties and principles have been
discovered in matter, and in its various
notifications. Matter is now shaped
with an astonishing voIition. The fngers
of man are thrown aside, while the fingers
OF an engine pick the knotted cotton,
spin its thread, and weave its woof.-
Steam and water now turn millions OF
wheels, where once the human hand turn.
cd single one. The miner. goes not
down now into the. sunless mine, where
the subieraneOus inuIdations and the
deadly fire-damp conspire against his
life. He sends down the iron arms of
an engine, which with barpy fdngs tear
out the heart-strngs of mother earth. and
suckup the waters in their urns of reft
rocks with the tongue of vampire and
the hiss of dragon! ..
Art hath triumphed over Nature, and
man only lives now II celebrate those rr-
umphs which have bowed the mountains
of pride, and bound the lashing ocean,
convuIsed with agony, with the fIlet Of |
virgin. The night and the day are now
tributary TO labor and production. Man
makes gold Of the moonbesm as we'll as
of the sunshine-plays as harmlessly with
the snaky lighniRgs of the Thunderer as
with the tresses Of the milky-way-and
makes the thin air the pavement of his
@rial chariot, as readily as he rides up
the face Ufthe lortiest mountains, drawn
by horses which he burns on; of the ele-
ment of water, and guides with reins of
iron. He now loves his mother earth
with an exceeding love, and has given
her railway for zone laid on tdiIy and
chaste, bucklad behind with a ship canal
across the backbone of the Andes. lie
has given her a head dress ofsnow wreaths
and polar icicles, which have been des-
crlbed by the man.millinels, Messrs.
Parry g. Back, who, when they had ad-
justed the frils Of an arctic winter, and
The curls OF the nlermin4bls snow.drfs.
had sense enough to Parry olfthe Green
land bears, and find Their way Back to
where mother earth has more feeling
than in her Alpine head, under her ice
bound night.cap.
Modern Art has made the Atlantic its
wash bowl, Africa its kitchen, Asia its
spice garden, Europe its treasure house.
and yOdng America its park--fuIl of wild
things, such as Indians, aud aIigarors,
and copperheaded snakes, with not
small sprnklirg of earthquakes other
words, ofstoamboa's that are propelled
through The air and water on The racing
principle, until their explosions make
both earth and heaven quake! r
Modern Art is giant that takes hold
Of Africa with one hand and America t
with ,he other, Fillowlng his head upon {
The Equator, dnd'lnoking upon Europe as S
his workshop. Modern Art is Ptysicdl I
Masonry! Physical Masonry is this gi E
ant who hath ro!edain piles the great {
stones ofantiqnily, as well as invoked the I
lteadfuI spirits from the world of mat
Ter, and bound the IN to the car Of mod
srn Improvement.
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