Note 676 — Chapter IV

Ibid. On a later page, in commenting upon Robison’s reference in his Proofs of a Conspiracy to the lodges of the Illuminati which had been established in America, Dwight said: “I know not who belonged to that society in this country; but if I were about to make proselytes to illuminatism in the United States, I should in the first place apply to Thomas Jefferson, Albert Gallatin, and their political associates.” (Ibid., p. 30.) This early use of the outcry against the Illuminati for political purposes was prophetic.