There is an apocrophal story about boiling a frog. Apparently if you put a frog in water and gently boil the water the frog will not jump out because it is insensitive to small changes in its environment. In the same way Freemasonry has become insensitive to subtle changes in its environment. In my Lodge, for example, there has been a steady decline in membership since the turn of the last century; a decline that most brethren seem to accept with a resigned sigh.
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To the contrary, I suggest, that the decline has not been spread over 100 years, but rather isolated to only the last 40 or so beginning in 1960.
Have a look at this to see how the numbers run out:
http://masonictraveler.blogspot.com/2007/03/so-what.html
What you can see is an institutional shift in membership where perhaps it is now that the frog is starting to feel the water starting to boil.
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