Chapter 44

      

     Robison, over 220 years ago, in his book Proofs of a Conspiracy, described the delicate process by which powerful men and idealistic intellectuals were sucked into Weishaupt's global scheme:

     "Weishaupt had long been scheming the establishment of an Association or Order, which, in time, should govern the world."

     "These (new recruits) are managed with delicacy and circumspection, that the timid may not be alarmed. In like manner, the political doctrines of the Order are inculcated with the utmost caution.

     After the mind of the pupil has been warmed by the pictures of universal happiness, and convinced that it is a possible thing to unite all the inhabitants of the earth in one great society, and after it has been made out, in some measure to the satisfaction of the pupil, that a great addition of happiness is gained by the abolition of national distinctions and animosities, it may frequently be no hard task to make him think thatpatriotism is a narrow-minded monopolizing sentiment, and even incompatible with the more enlarged views of the Order, namely, the uniting the whole human race into one great and happy society."