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Antiquarian Library - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Proofs of a Conspiracy (Robison, J.), 1798.
Author:- Robison, J.
Date:- 1798 -
UGLE Classification:- A 80 ROB - History & Philosophy of Freemasonry: The State and Freemasonry
WMLMT Classification:- Persecution
Order:- Craft (& Freemasonry General)
Details
Against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the secret meetings of Freemasons, Illumaniti, and Reading Societies.
Collected from good Authorities, by JOHN ROBSON, AM., Professor of Natural Philosophy, and Secretary to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Nand tua res agitur panes cum prosciums ardet. The Third Edition, corrected. London: Printed for T. Caddell, Jun., andW. Davies, Strand, and W. Cruch, Edinburgh. 1798.
More pretensious than reliable, and as the English Lodges were exempted from the Professor’s strictures, the volume does not much concern us in this country, but, like all such works, the bitterness of the opposition to the Craft prevents any good being done, even supposing the author was capable in that direction. The book went through many editions, but as people found out there was nothing in it, they are now to be had, almost for the price of waste paper, and certainly for less than the cost of theirbinding.
Properties
3rd edition, corrected. pp. 547. 8”x5”. T. Cadell, London, &c., 1798.
