Excerpt from A Library of Freemasonry, Derived From Official Sources Throughout the World, Vol. 3: Comprising Its History, Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, and Concordant Orders, Royal Arch. Knights Templar, A.A.S. Rite, Mystic Shrine
The writing-cf Sir James Hall mayalso be referred to, asaffording equallycogent evidence of the wide difluaion of error. Owing to a similar dependence upon statements for which the compiler of the first two editions of the Constitutions is the original nu thority. In the latter instance, we find, as I have already mentioned, that the fact of Wren's Grand Mastership, is actually relied upon, by a non-masonic writer of eminence, as stamping the opinion of the great architect, with regard to the origin of Gothic archi tecture, astheveryhighestthatthesubjectwilladmitcf.' How, indeed - when we have marshalled all the authorities, considered their arguments.
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