sentences:  Dermott's characterisation of the Moderns is scathing and satirical, and with each succeeding edition during his lifetime, more scorn is heaped on the society that deviated from the established landmarks of the order, and whose greatest masonic symbols were the knife and fork.After his death, in 1791, successive editors of Ahiman Rezon progressively excised the insults.The Ahiman Rezon, although divisive, proved popular, and the Ancients flourished.