ABSTRACT
ARDUOUS is the task I am now entering upon, and very difficult indeed is it to eradicate opinions which have been so strongly impressed upon the people’s minds / (and especially those of the fair sex) for ages past: however, the reasons and arguments that I shall lay down, I hope will remove those grounded opinions, and prove highly satisfactory to my fair readers; as I am sure when they consider seriously upon masonry, and but for a moment reflect that its institution is for the improvement of the mind and morals of mankind; they will allow them to be just.
