Excerpt from The New Free-Mason's Monitor, or Masonic Guide: For the Direction of Members of That Ancient and Honourable Fraternity, as Well as for the Information of Those, Who May Be Desirous of Becoming Acquainted With Its PrinciplesThat freei-masonry has greatly tended to enlighten the minds, as Well as to improve the' morals of those, who have arranged them selves under its banners, is a fact, which the most intelligent part of the community will not be disposed to contradict, and were its principles more generally known, the objec tions against the meetings of free-masons in secret. Would be removed from the breast of every unprejudiced person.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.