The seven Liberal Arts and Sciences—which are Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomny—are then described.
GRAMMAR
Teaches the proper arrangement of words, according to the idiom or dialect of any particular people; and that excellency of pronunciation which enables us to speak or write a language with accuracy, agreeably to reason and correct usage.
RHETORIC
Teaches us to speak copiously and fluently on any subject, not merely with propriety alone, but with all the advantages of force and elegance, wisely contriving to captivate the hearer by strength of argument and beauty of expression, whether it be to entreat or exhort, to admonish or applaud.
LOGIC
Teaches us to guide our reason discretionally in the general knowledge of things, and directs our inquiries after truth. It consists of a regular train of argument, whence we infer, deduce, and conclude, according to certain premises laid down, admitted, or granted; and in it are employed the faculties of conceiving, judging, reasoning, and disposing, all of which are naturally led on from one gradation to an other, till the point in question is finally determined.
This science ought to be cultivated as the foundation, or ground-work, of our inquires; particularly in the pursuit of those sublime principles which claim our attention as Masons.
