The Antiquities of Free-Masonry - Comprising Illustration of the Five Grand Periods of Masonry #249460

I cannot but think (and I say it with the utmost deference, as it involves some of the most refined and honourable feelings of human nature) that the doubts of conscientious brethren, respecting the propriety of committing Masonic investigations to writing, have tended to impede the study of Ma sonry, and have prevented the science from carry ing that conviction which an Opposite practice would have commanded.