To me this phrase means that the person who wrote lived in 1723 and his beliefs were those of his times; the Anderson Constitutions to-day are obsolete and they are so for several reasons, one of them--being the most important--is that we are not anymore living in the English Enlightenment, which of course, it was a French invention, but we are in a very much different world, now animals and women have rights, then they were almost equal. Thus, thanks to the socialistic european revolutions--starting these withe the French Revolution in 1789--life has changed; even USA had its own revolution back then, its own declaration of principles, and even then they had the wisdom enough to maintain a fine relationship with the Grand Orient of France, to which, Bro:. Lafayette belonged--and remember he was a very close friend to Bro:. Washington.
In fine, live changes and so should we!