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Harris' masonic text-book; a concise historical sketch of masonry, and the organization of masonic grand lodges, and especially of masonry among colored men in America .. (1902)

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An illustration from Harris' masonic text-book; a concise historical sketch of masonry, and the organization of masonic grand lodges, and especially of masonry among colored men in America .., 1902, leaf 182
iged men to contrive shelters from the inclem-ency of the weather, we learn that they first plantedtrees on end, and then laid others across to supportits covering. The bands which connected those treesat top and bottom are said to have given rise to theidea of base and the capital of pillars ; and… … 164 HARRIS THE INVENTION OF ORDER IN ARCHITECTURE. The ancient and original Orders of Architecture re-vered by Masons, are no more than three—the Doric,Ionic and Corinthian, which were invented by the Gre-cians, To these the Romans have added two—theTuscan, which they made plainer than the Doric,…

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