The Covenant And Official Magazine Of The Grand Lodge Of The United States Vol 1

Author : Independent Order Of Odd Lodge
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230147406
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book The Covenant, and Official Magazine of the Grand Lodge of the United States Volume 1 written by Independent Order Of Odd Lodge and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...of being the pupils we shall be the teachers of those who in time past have taught us. Intelligence among our mechanics has enabled us thus to outstrip our compeers--intelligence not merely in our academic halls, but in the noise and din of the workshop. Our mechanics have not been like many of the operators in other countries, the mere creatures of toil and labor; but they have been men, qualified to think, and they have thought, correctly and successfully.--There is intelligence abroad, dillusing itself through all the ramifications of society. There is mind, active, inquisitive, reasoning, searching mind employed in our busy scenes of labor--there is mind in him that scans the wood and hews the stone, as well as in him that draws the plan of the edifice. Let this mind be sedulously cultivated, and our progress will still be rapidly onward, and we shall one day look down upon the cunning craftsmen of the cast, as far below us in the knowledge and practice of these useful arts. I grant that there arc difficulties in the way, and I shall perhaps best direct your attention to the means of future improvement by pointing out some of these difficulties. One of these may be found in the prevailing opinion, that a poor and meagre education will answer all the purposes of the mechanic. The father looks upon his sons, and in providing for their future livelihood he reasons after this manner: --A. has a preference for the profession of law, and he must be educated. B. chooses to be a physician, and he must be educated. ButC. is to be a mechanic, and his education may be stinted, for it will be of little use to him. Now I say, if that man understood the interests of his son, he would educate this last as the first. True, if he wishes his son to be a..