Freemasonry

This study considers the institution of Freemasonry from the point of view of both masons and their critics, as well as from the author''s own. In the first section, it gives an outline of masonic history, from the foundation of the Grand Lodge in Covent Garden in 1717 through its major role in Enlightenment Europe and the American War of Independence, its many tribulations and schisms in the 19th...