jan 1, 1929 - The Secret Powers Behind Revolution: Freemasonry and Judaism by Léon de Poncins

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"During the 18th century the glorious line of the Encyclopedistes found in our temples a fervent audience, which, alone at that period, invoked the radiant motto, still unknown to the people, of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. The revolutionary seed germinated rapidly in that select company. Our illustrious brother masons d'Alembert, Diderot, Helvetius, d'Holbaeh, Voltaire and Condorcet, completed the evolution of people's minds and prepared the way for a new age. And when the Bastille fell, freemasonry had the supreme honour to present to humanity the charter which it had friendly elaborated. It was our brother mason Lafayette, who was the first to bring forward the proposal for a declaration of the natural rights of man and of the citizen living in society, in order to make it the first chapter of the constitution. On August 25th 1789, the Constituent Assembly, of which more than 300 members were masons, finally adopted, almost word for word, such as it had been for long elaborated in the lodges, the text of the immortal declaration of the Rights of Man. At that decisive hour for civilization, French masonry was the universal conscience, and in the various projects improvised and initiated by the members of the Constituent Assembly, it never ceased to apply the considered results of the slow elaborations of its workshops." pg. 33-34