Arthur Preuss

Arthur Preuss né à Saint-Louis, Missouri, le 22 mars 1871 et mort le 16 décembre 1934 à Saint-Louis, était un journaliste, auteur et éditeur catholique américain d'origine allemande.

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• {{}} Among the varied influences that are ceaselessly engagée! in shaping American ideas and molding American life, Freemasonry must, in ail fairness, be conceded a prominent place. Its principles are scattered broadeast by our daily press; its labors for humanity are the constant thème of tongue and pen; its members are, in great part, our lawgivers, our judges, our rulers; even the présidents of our republic openly join its ranks; the educators of our youth in school and university are often its adhérents, and encourage among their pupils societies which ape its secrecy and methods and prépare the young to become its zealous partisans in after life. To crown ail, Protestant ministers and bishops are its initiâtes and advocates, so that often not only the corner stones of our public buildings, but even those of Protestant churches, are laid by its ofificers and consecrated by its mystic rites. To deny its influence among us, would be to deny a fact plainer than the light of day.

• A study in American Freemasonry, Arthur Preuss, éd. B. Harder, 1908, chap. Introduction, p. 7

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