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UNION OF PRINCIPLES

It has been noted, says Dr. Mackey, as an evidence of the union of principles which began to distinguish the architects of and after the Tenth century, who called themselves Freemasons, that in the time of Caesar a habitation in Helvetia differed more from a dwelling in the northern part of Italy, though the regions were adjacent, than the church reared in England and Sweden did from one erected in Sicily or Palestine, remote as the countries were from each other (quoted from Mr. Thomas Hope).

Now let it be remembered that this unity of design was introduced by the Traveling Freemasons; that these derived a knowledge of the great principles of the art of building from the artificers sent by the Roman College, in company with the legions of the Roman army, into all the conquered provinces... and finally that these stone-masons, for purposes of their own aggrandizement, admitted non- professionals... into their ranks, who eventually overcame the former in influence and numbers and transmuted the Operative into a Speculative institution.

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