HARRINGTON'S

DESIDERATUM FOR THE AGE,

A Masonic Work,

WHEREIN

THE FIRST PRINCIPLES WHICH CONSTITUTE
NATURE ARE EXPLAINED,

AS WELL AS CERTAIN OTHER NATURAL PHENOMENA :
THE CAUSE OF

POVERTY AND DISTRESS

(THAT DIRE DISEASE WHICH IS NOW PREYING ON THE VITALS
OF MANKIND),

SHEWN, AND THE REMEDY

THAT WILL REMOVE THIS DISEASE, AND

RESTORE ALL TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS,

POINTED OUT.

"I believe it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and
study the time in which he lives: and as far as in him lies, to add his
humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of
what he believes Providence to have ordained,"

Prince Albert's Speech.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY JAMES GILBERT, 49, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1851.

141.d.566.

Portsmouth: Printed by W. II. Charpentier, 50, High Street.

PREFACE.

THE following very humble Work is issued from a sense of duty, and not from a vain desire to become an author; and the remarks upon Natural Philosophy, are introduced under an impression that they may be correct, and not in direct opposition to the opinions of learned and scientific men who may think differently. As the points touched upon are all more or less resting on theory, I trust I shall not be considered as presuming too much in placing my humble views thereon before the public.