New England and the Bavarian Illuminati (Classic Reprint)

THE obligations incurred in the preparation of the following study are much too numerous, and varied to admit of adequate notice. Special mention must, however, be made of my indebtedness to the staffs of the following libraries: The Boston Athenaeum, Congregational, Masonic (Boston), American Antiquarian Society, Connecticut Historical Society, New York Historical Society, Library of Congress, the public libraries of the cities of Boston and New York, the library of Hiram College, and the university libraries of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. In addition to the many courtesies received from these sources, I have had valuable assistance from the following persons: Mr. Newton R. Parvin, grand secretary of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, A. F. & A. M., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, whose warm personal interest in my investigation has found expression in the loan of many valuable volumes; Mr. Worthington C. Ford, of the Massachusetts Historical Society, who besides. opening freely to

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION 9; CHAPTER I; THE UNDERMINING OF PURITAN STANDARDS AND INSTITUTIONS; I Rapid Disintegration of Puritanism after the Revolution , 13; 2 Ominous Discontent with the Standing Order 33; 3 Alarms due to the Spread of Religious Radicalism and Scepticism 66; CHAPTER II; POLITICAL ENTANGLEMENTS AND HYSTERiA; 1 The Situation prior to 1798 ; 2 The Situation from 1798 to 1800 ; CHAPTER III; THE EUlIOPEAN ORDER OF THE iLLUMINATl; 103; 12Z; I The Rise and the Disappearance of the Order Lp; 2 The Legend of the Order and its Literary Communication to; New England 186; CHAPTER IV; THE ILLUMINATI AGITATION IN NEW ENGLAND; I Morse Precipitates the Controversy ; 2 Inconclusive Developments of Morse's Second Formal Deli'- 229; erance • 261; 3 Morse Submits his Inept Documentary Evidence 287; 4 Freemasonry's Embarrassment and Protest 321; S Attempts of Democrats to Fix the Countercharge of muminism; upon the Federalists 345; BlBUOGRAPHY