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 241
itutionscan be identified only by tracing the progress of the Roman collegesfrom their rise in the reign of Numa, to their dissolution at the timeof the decline and fall of the Empire, and their absorption into thearchitectural associations which sprang up in those parts of Europewhich had once… … CHAPTER III GROWTH OF THE ROMAN COLLEGES jT has been shown in the preceding chapter thatNuma, in his sagacious efforts to improve thecivilization of the early Romans, and to recon-cile the heterogeneous elements of which thepopulation was composed had instituted collegesor guilds of mechanics. I do…
