title: CONCISE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE 3ED
author: Mason
description: <span style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span>Mason&#39;s book is a gem: it&rsquo;s well-written, succinct, and does exactly what I need it to do.</span></span> (Alan Cafruny, Hamilton College)<br /><br /><span><span>David Mason&rsquo;s account of European history from the Enlightenment to the present offers an authoritative synthesis of major developments in this diverse and complex period. Written in a lucid and engaging style, clearly structured and concise, this survey is both comprehensive and readable. It is well suited as an introductory textbook for college undergraduates.</span></span> (Jolanta T. Pekacz, Dalhousie University)<br /><br /><span><span>Highlighting the most important events, ideas, and individuals that have shaped modern Europe, this text provides a readable, concise history of the continent from the Enlightenment and the French Revolution to the present day. Avoiding a detailed chronology, the book focuses on key events and ideas to explore the causes and consequences of revolution&mdash;political, economic and scientific; the origins and development of human rights and democracy; and issues of European identity and integration. Any reader who wants a broad sweep of European history will find this book an engaging narrative, supplemented with maps, timelines, sidebars, photos, and a glossary.<br /></span></span>
zlib_text: Freemasonry 
  and the 
  Transmission of Geometry 
   
  James C. Stewart 
  North Bay Lodge No. 617 A.F. & A.M. G.R.C. 
   James C. Stewart 2013 
   
  cold6001@gmail.com 
   
   
  “Hic incipiunt constituciones artis gemetriae secundum Eucyldem” 
  “Here begin the constitutions of the art of geometry according to Euclid”1 
   
   
   
   
   
  Abstract 
   
  This article investigates geometry’s importance within freemasonry and discovers the 
  de facto guardianship provided geometry by operative masons through the Middle 
  Ages. Operative masons passed their geometry and their philosophy from generation 
  to generation via initiation. This paper illustrates the transmission and sometimes 
  startling application of those principles while examining the masonic symbolism of 
  the 47th Proposition of Euclid, the Golden Ratio and the Point within a Circle. 
  Consequently, the study reveals an extraordinary path from the operative to the 
  speculative age. By tracing the history of the Master Mason, or third degree, we gain a 
  deep