[529] _Ibid._, pp. 355 _et seq._ “Thus I think it clearly appears, that the suppression of the Illuminati in Bavaria and of the Union in Brandenburgh were insufficient.... The habit of plotting had formed itself into a regular system. Societies now acted everywhere in secret, in correspondence with similar societies in distant places. And thus a mode of cooperation was furnished to the discontented, the restless, and the unprincipled in all places, without even the trouble of formal initiations, and without any external appearances by which the existence and occupations of the members could be distinguished.” (_Ibid._)
[530] _Ibid._, p. 355. _Cf. ibid._, p. 286.
[537] The Grand Orient, according to Robison, represented the association of all the _improved_ Masonic lodges of France. Its Grand Master was the Duke of Orléans. _Cf. ibid._, p. 381.
[542] _Ibid._, p. 402. Robison regarded the famous Jacobin Club in Paris as “just one of those Lodges.” (Robison, p. 406. _Cf. ibid._, p. 402.) He allowed his statement to stand, however, without making any effort to substantiate it. Further, he held that the political committees in these “illuminated” lodges of France were in correspondence with similar committees in Germany, Holland, Austria, and Switzerland. _Cf. ibid._, pp. 406 _et seq._, 414 _et seq._, 420. The contradictory character of his “evidence” is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that he treats the Masonic lodges of Paris as trying to seduce the lodges of German Freemasons. _Cf. Ibid._, p. 418.
[545] The London edition of 1797–8 (4 vols.) was reprinted in five volumes at Hamburg, Augsburg and Braunschweig; and a new edition, revised and corrected by the author, was issued at Lyons in 1818. Barruel himself put forth an English translation at London in 1798; and this was reprinted at Hartford, Conn., New York, and Elizabeth-town, N. J., the following year. Continental allies of the ex-Jesuit must have been responsible for translations into Polish, Dutch and Portuguese, which enjoyed but one printing apiece, as well as for the three editions of the Spanish translation, and for two of the three Italian editions. During the anti-Masonic campaign of the swindler Leo Taxil (1887), the Italian translation was reprinted at Rome by the _Tipografia de Propaganda Fide_.