Excerpt from The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic Guild
No one could be more surprised than myself at the early call for a second edition of the Cathedral Builders, for I had feared that a discovery in the history of art, hitherto unnoticed, would have found fewer readers ready to accept it I knew that though I could show many evidences of the after development of the Masonic Guild, yet absolute proofs of its earlier history were few, it being an age of which no documentary records survive, and even its inscriptions are in these days far from legible. However, since the book went to press, several facts, and some documentary evidences have come to hand, which tend greatly to confirm the hypothesis, especially as regards the connection of Italy with the early English Masonic Lodges, as they are revealed in the Masonic Records and Fabric Rolls of the Cathedrals. I hope the result will lead to a similar search into the medi?val origin of Architecture and Art, in both France and Germany.
One of my critics who does not appear to have studied the history of Art, has thought to ridicule the theory of a guild by saying, "We would humbly suggest on the same line of argument that in England, Australia, Canada and the United States just now people are speaking one and the same language, therefore there must be some mysterious guild - and why not the Comacine Guild or the Freemasons, regulating unbeknown to everybody the grammar and literary style of every English-speaking country? The supposition seems to us quite as reasonable as that of the Cathedral Builders."
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