As an introduction let me quote in part, extracts from a paper, read by a distinguished Freemason of high rank, in a Research Lodge of another Constitution.
"It is clearly the aims and objects of a Research Lodge to conduct research in the History, teachings, principles and practice of Freemasonry, and further, to disseminate Masonic knowledge by means of Lectures, discussions, demonstrations and papers."
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1950 - LOOKING AGAIN AT THE BACKGROUND OF FREEMASONRY - Arthur H Sivewright.