"The [Roman Empire] collegia were the forerunner of societies of workmen and artisans which organisations, through various periods of rise and decline, finally after eighteen hundred years of constant evolution have culminated in Freemasonry."

D. Darrah, The History and Evolution of Freemasonry, 1954.

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