What is Freemasonry? Please elaborate on who or what the Freemasons are. Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.
Definition: Nativism is an irrational prejudice against immigrants, and in favor of the native-born members of a particular culture. It is often associated with racism in that the targets of nativism typically belong to a different ethnic group than the perpetrators.
Positivism is a philosophical theory stating that certain knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations. Thus, information derived from sensory experience, interpreted through reason and logic, forms the exclusive source of all certain knowledge. Positivism holds that valid knowledge is found only in this a posteriori knowledge. Verified data received from the senses are known as empirical evidence; thus positivism is based on empiricism. Positivism also holds that s