The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history (1906)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, Singleton, William R. (William Reynolds), 1819-1901, Singleton, William R. (William Reynolds), 1819-1901. History of the symbolism of freemasonry, Hughan, William James, 1841-1911 · New York : the Masonic History Company · leaf 309
the18th century by the universal formation of clubs and private socie-ties for all sorts of purposes. But none of these causes could have been productive of a soci-ety of philosophers whose formulas of instruction were derivedfrom the principles of Operative Masonry, had not the way beenprepared… … CHAPTER XXVIII THE WAY PREPARED FOR THE TRANSITION |HE very great change from an Operative art to aSpeculative Science, by which the whole practicalcharacter of the former was abandoned and asystem of philosophy was established on itsbasis, could never have been accomplished byany human efforts, if…
Scottish Rite (Masonic order) · Freemasonry
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