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>A history professor at the American University in Washington, D.C., Alan M. Kraut, wrote an article for the Journal of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, in which he recalls Grand Nasi Frankland’s reflections on the Yellow Fever Epidemic that struck his city of Memphis in 1873. We should note in passing that the article mentions some Masonic principles: namely, the idea that there is a sort of “social physics” that hinges on the way in which human organizations connect order and chaos. In hindsight, during the 20th century, this social physics gave rise to management sciences and the idea of driving change through group dynamics, which is the founding intuition of social engineering:

>"On top of being Secretary of the Citizens Executive Committee and President of the HHRA, he was on the executive committee of the Howard Association and was Grand Nassi AB. [District President] of Grand District Lodge No. 7 of the International Order of B’nai B’rith. […] The autumn frost brought an end to the 1873 Yellow Fever Epidemic. Frankland bitterly wrote that those who had fled home returned “to get back to business.” Because of the human loss, “every association had to re-organize” and bring “order out of chaos.” Official reports indicate that over 5,000 individuals were afflicted with Yellow Fever; more than 2,000 died within two months."