Illustrations of Masonry

What is proper and necessary in one grade of society is wholly useless and may be alarming in anOther. Opinions and usages that go down in tradition and interfere not with our improvements in social concerns adhere to us more closely and become entwined in all our feelings. It is to this we owe our bigoted attachment to antiquity—it is this that demands from us a superstitious reverence for the opinions and practices of men of former times and closes the ear against truth and blinds the eyes to the glare of new lights and new accessions of knowledge through which medium only can they break in upon the mind.