Ritual , Secrecy , and Civil Society
Stuart comeback seem to have diminished and given way to a wider dissemination of his political and religious ideas , even though they went against the new ideas of the Enlightenment . Ramsay was no longer a convinced Jacobite , and the spreading of his ideas was assured by his best-selling work of the time , The Travels of Cyrus , as well as thanks to the relations he established with prominent persons on both sides of the Channel . But , in particular , he gained a new and very efficient platform for his ideas in the form of Freemasonry .
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Albert , C . ( 1926 ). Un aventurier religieux au XVIII e siècle , André Michel Ramsay ( p . 30 ). Paris : Perrin .
George , D . H . ( 1952 ). Chevalier Ramsay ( p . 89 ). London : T . Nelson and Sons .
Marialuisa , B . ( 2008 ). Philosophie et politique chez Andrew Michael Ramsay ( p . 94 ). Paris : Éditions Honoré Champion .
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