History of Freemasonry, Part 2
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780766134898
Subjects: Freemasonry & secret societies; Freemasonry; Social Science; Sociology
First sentence: THE theory that connects the royal house of the Stuarts with Freemasonry, as an Institution to be cultivated, not on account of its own intrinsic merit, but that it might serve as a political engine to be wielded for the restoration of an exiled family to a throne which the follies and even the crimes of its members had forfeited, is so repugnant to all that has been supposed to be congruous with the true spirit and character of Freemasonry, that one would hardly believe that such a theory was ever seriously entertained, were it not for many too conclusive proofs of the fact.