The Druids, we are informed, retained among them many usages similar to those of masons; but of what they consisted, at this remote period we cannot with certainty discover. In conformity to the antient practices of the fraternity, we learn that they held their assemblies in woods and groves, and observed the most impenetrable secrecy in their principles and opinions; a circumstance we have reason to regret, as these, being known only to themselves, must have perished with them.
The series of historical essays that we gather here constitutes the most complete and documented work published to date on the possible or impossible relationships between the very ancient initiation practices of Druidism and those of present-day Freemasonry.
