Scott Foster
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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The matter, however, had been made familiar to the speaker by many years of observation and reading.
Very flattering and in some cases very full reports of them appeared in Catholic newspapers.
The report of the principal Protestant organ of public opinion in Edinburgh, the Scotsman, was very fair, but another paper bitterly resented what it chose to consider an attack on Freemasonry and freedom.
It was not, however, so much in the hope of diverting Protestants from Freemasonry as in the desire to show to Catholics that all kinds of secret societies were as bad as, if not worse than Freemasonry, were in fact united with and under the rule of the worst form of Freemasonry, that the lecturer essayed to speak at all upon the subject.
If what he said could influence anyone outside the church from joining the worse than folly of British Masonry, he would rejoice at the result.
But his principal aim was to save his own co religionists from an evil far more pernicious to them than British Masonry has ever been to Protestants.
In this latter design he was glad to learn that he had considerable success, and amongst those who heard or read his utterances very many expressed a desire to see what he happened to have said in a permanent form.
Notwithstanding the difficulties of doing this with any effect during a vacation tour, he determined at whatever cost to himself to gratify their wishes, and therefore took advantage of a few weeks' rest while spending Christmas in his alma mater, All Hallows College, Dublin, to put both lectures into the shape in which he now presents them to such as may desire to read them.
It must, however, be remembered that these lectures are nothing more than what they were originally, that is casual discourses and not formal and exhaustive treatises on the subjects upon which they touch.
For convenience he has divided each one into separate headings, and where necessary to illustrate the text he has added notes.
These are necessary in order to form a clear idea of the whole matter treated.
Notes, however, are not always proofs, and proofs however difficult to be obtained against opponents intent on concealment must nevertheless be forthcoming in order to convince.
He has therefore embodied in the text several documents which were only referred to, or but partially quoted in the spoken lectures.
Those now occupy many pages of the lecture upon secret societies and will, he believes, be read with considerable interest by such as have not previously been acquainted with them.
The permanent instruction and the letters of Vindex and Piccolo Tigre, originally published by Monsieur Cretinau Jolie from the archives of the Alta Vendita, after they were fortunately discovered by the Roman police, are of this class.
Certain extracts are also given of equal value.
Most of those documents have been translated into English from French translations of the original Italian and German, and one passage, that of Mr Robison on Freemasonry as the cause of the First French Revolution, is taken from a translation from the English into French, redone into English, as it was impossible to find the original work of Mr Robison, which, though extremely valuable, is, he believes, long out of print.
The documents regarding the spoliation of the propaganda have been translated from the Latin and Italian originals.
He has endeavoured to translate all such documents as literally as possible so as to preserve their value as evidences.
The first lecture, which he has entitled The War of Antichrist with the Church and Christian Civilization, is intended to treat in as brief space as possible the whole question of secret atheistic organization, its origin, its nature, its history in the last century and in this, and its unity of satanic purpose in a wonderful diversity of forms.
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