New England and the Bavarian Illuminati

VERNON STAUFFER, A. M.

Dean and Professor of New Testament and Church History
Hiram College

SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
IN THE

FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

NEW YORK
1918

To
J. E., R. W., AND R. F.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 9

CHAPTER I

THE UNDERMINING OF PURITAN STANDARDS AND INSTITUTIONS

1.	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	103
2.	The Situation from 1798 to 1800	122

CHAPTER III

THE EUROPEAN ORDER OF THE ILLUMINATI

1.	The Rise and the Disappearance of the Order	142
2.	The Legend of the Order and its Literary Communication to New England	186

CHAPTER IV

THE ILLUMINATI AGITATION IN NEW ENGLAND

1.	Morse Precipitates the Controversy	229
2.	Inconclusive Developments of Morse’s Second Formal Deliverance	261
3.	Morse Submits his Inept Documentary Evidence	287
4.	Freemasonry’s Embarrassment and Protest	321
5.	Attempts of Democrats to Fix the Countercharge of Illuminism upon the Federalists	345

BIBLIOGRAPHY 361