MASONIC STATISTICS.
Weoftenhear of "Masonic Statistics," which unfortunately are too often used by the empirical or fanatic (of cither side) for their own purposes, and in no sense appeal to the abstract virtue of veracity or the concrete acceptance of the world. The following passage from our excellent contemporary, the New York Dispatch, edited by Bro. J. Simons, P.G.M., of New York, will commend itself to those who prefer fact to fiction, true figures to imaginary:—"There are probably about a million and a half of Masons in the world. Great Britain includes about one-sixth of the entire number, and the United States a still larger fraction, The estimate for the whole of Europe is 35.000, and for North and- South America about 650,000. Asia, Africa, and tho Islands of the sea furnish the remainder." These figures accord on the whole, or nearly so, with some which appeared a little time back in the Freemason, and we believe them to be approximately correct,—Freemason.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1641, 22 March 1884, Page 4
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162MASONIC STATISTICS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1641, 22 March 1884, Page 4
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