A Brief Inquiry Into the Origin and Principles of Free Masonry

by Simon Greenleaf

Excerpt from A Brief Inquiry Into the Origin and Principles of Free Masonry

But Mr. Lawrie was not the first who rejected the opinion that Masonry was founded by a fraternity of architects; The Spirit {of Masonry, several years before this, had been published with the approbation of the Grand Lodge' of England, under the aus-i pioes of Lord petrie, Grand Master, by Mr. Hutchinson, Mas ter of the Barnardcastle Lodge of Concord. In this book, which.

119 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2018

About the author

Greenleaf is an important figure in the development of that Christian school of thought known as legal or juridical apologetics. His principal work of legal scholarship is A Treatise on the Law of Evidence (3 vols., 1842–1853).