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ABEYANCE IY, PAGE 232.ASSOCIATION.

Seeing it undertakes to merit its restoration by doingthat which none can do half as well (nor at all)—modify-ing itself to the tune—(again in advance of its age, asalmost always),—practically useful to mankind and civili-zation, in the words of its princely Norman founder, proutilitate hominum, true and primitive scope of itsinstitution, the Order of St. John of Jerusalem is res-tored thus:—

1. That it he divided into two distinct classes, Knightsprofest and Knights free; equally honourable, since oftwo brothers the elder will frequently be of the second,the younger of the first, as often happens actually—though by favour and not by law. Let only all favourthen be annihilated, and law take its place.

2. Knights profest to remain as of yore, with thisdifference—necessary result of exempting it from allfavour—rendering the few still fewer (as they ought),recognizing the Pope only in his spiritual capacity strictly,like other Homan Catholics; and not in the least otherwisemore than any other temporal sovereign. This class willthen subside into a kind of senate, or select chapter general,from whom are to be elected, and they alone elect, theGrand Master ; and to them belong the six highest postsof the Order after the Grand Master. Indeed, it ischiefly from the lustre of the past, like a fine monumentof antiquity, that this class is preserved pretty much in