Secret Societies

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 1. Secret associations are of very ancient origin. They existed among the ancient Egyptians, Hin doos, Grecians, Romans, and probably among nearly all the pagan nations of antiquity. This fact, how ever, is neither, proof of their utility nor of their harmlessness. Slavery, despotism, cruelty, drunken ness, falsehood, and all sorts of sins and crimes have.