Secret Societies Edward Beecher

1867 study written by three noted Victorian authors: Edward Beecher, Jonathan Blanchard and Rev. David MacDill. "Secret associations are of very ancient origin. They existed among the ancient Egyptians, Hindoos, Grecians, Romans, and probably among nearly all the pagan nations of antiquity. This fact, however is neither proof of their utility nor of their harmlessness. Slavery, despotism, cruelty, drunken falsehood, and all sorts of sins and crimes have been practiced from time immemorial, but are none the less to be reprobated on that account." Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Secret Societies (Edward Beecher)