Pythian knighthood, it history and literature; (1888)
Carnahan, James R. (James Richards), b. 1840 · Cincinnati, The Pettibone manufacturing company · leaf 245
ng this fraternity, proposed to placeit on a semi-military basis, patterned in a certain degreeafter the knighthood and military organizations of the ageof chivalry. True, indeed, they purposed to have it foundedon an heroic idea of friendship and loyalty to the personswho should enter within the… … HISTORY AND LITERATURE. 219 heroic firmness that characterized the storied bravery andloyalty of the olden knighthood. In their first teachingsof the tenets and doctrines of this modern American Pythi-anism, the newly made Knights were fully instructed andcautioned that the friendship taught was to…
Knights of Pythias
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