The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history (1906)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, Hughan, William James, 1841-1911, Singleton, William Reynolds, 1819-1901. History of the symbolism of freemasonry, the Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite and the Royal Order of Scotland · New York : Masonic History Co. · leaf 259
t. Equally untenable is the proposition of the more learnedFaber, when he says that ** the Druids are probably the real found-ers of English Freemasonry. The conclusion to which I think we must arrive, from what welearn of the two institutions from historical knowledge of one andpersonal experience… … FREEMASONRY AND THE CRUSADES N all the legendary history of Freemasonry thereis nothing more interesting or more romanticthan the stories which connect its origin withthe Crusades; nothing in which the judgmentand reasoning powers have been more com-pletely surrendered to the imagination of the…
