Cover of An Essay on the Origin of Free Masonry

An Essay on the Origin of Free Masonry

Thomas Paine

Public domain

Thomas Paine's essay arguing that Freemasonry derives from the Druidic sun-worship, printed in London by Richard Carlile in 1818, after Paine's death. A 14-page Carlile pamphlet, produced in the radical press where such works had small print runs.

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