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There is not a single exception , from the Exodus to the destruction of the last temple and the final dispersion of the nation . As a second and necessary principle , the object of the association must not be wholly selfish , but for the benefit of our fellow men , or
for the direct worship of God . Hence , the band of union is a veneration for , and submission to God , and love to man . The Carbonari , with their affiliated Lodges , extending throughout Southern and Western Europe ( and even invading St . Petersburg ) ,
with millions of initiates scattered broadcast over the land , after some temporary successes in the kingdom of Naples , ultimately failed in promoting the cause of liberty and the public welfare , as well as in preserving their own existence . They have done worse , for they have left the people under heavier yokes than those of which they had previously complained . If the societies of the Carbonari and the Illuminati had not been turned aside from the pursuit of their original
objects , and had not allowed themselves to become the instruments of personal ambition , or of malice , and had laboured sincerely for man ' s welfare , there was a possibility of longer life , though the attempt was made by the aid of " the dim light of nature ; " but when the philosophers were obliged to resign their seats to politicians , and
the lecture , " illuminating mankind in science and virtue , to the excitement of a club-room of violent passions , their fates were sealed . But , without this , it was an attempt to build an arch without a keystone , or to sustain , one by a single column !
Other societies , which grew out of or succeeded these , had not the merits of either . The footsteps of the latter were marked by discord , assassination , and anarchy . In addition to the want of the proper principles of support , their means were illegal , and their object , if attained , would have resulted in injury , and not in the benefit of themselves or others . And however desirable it may be to curtail
an undue exercise of power by governments , and however advantageous the liberty of the people may appear in the abstract , it is no advantage , but a decided injury , if the people , from any cause , are not prepared for its enjoyment . We have had abundant evidence , d urine : the present century , to show that the southern nations of
Europe have not yet very clear ideas of a republic , and that they are not yet sufficiently well disciplined for self-government ; but if they had , by their intelligence and otherwise , been fully prepared for a democratic form of government , they had discarded all its supports . They utterly rejected all religion . They not only ceased to be
Catholics , but Christians . They did not rely on the King of kings and Governor of governors . The cap of Liberty was mounted upon the staff of the flag of Infidelity ! With ultra notions on the subject of freedom , and with agrarian
tendencies—their initiates' hands wreaking with the blood of the victims of assassination , —these societies alarmed all true patriots and friends of liberty ; and who , to prevent the greater evils of anarchy , wore compelled , in self-defence , to take sides with their respective governments .
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There is not a single exception , from the Exodus to the destruction of the last temple and the final dispersion of the nation . As a second and necessary principle , the object of the association must not be wholly selfish , but for the benefit of our fellow men , or
for the direct worship of God . Hence , the band of union is a veneration for , and submission to God , and love to man . The Carbonari , with their affiliated Lodges , extending throughout Southern and Western Europe ( and even invading St . Petersburg ) ,
with millions of initiates scattered broadcast over the land , after some temporary successes in the kingdom of Naples , ultimately failed in promoting the cause of liberty and the public welfare , as well as in preserving their own existence . They have done worse , for they have left the people under heavier yokes than those of which they had previously complained . If the societies of the Carbonari and the Illuminati had not been turned aside from the pursuit of their original
objects , and had not allowed themselves to become the instruments of personal ambition , or of malice , and had laboured sincerely for man ' s welfare , there was a possibility of longer life , though the attempt was made by the aid of " the dim light of nature ; " but when the philosophers were obliged to resign their seats to politicians , and
the lecture , " illuminating mankind in science and virtue , to the excitement of a club-room of violent passions , their fates were sealed . But , without this , it was an attempt to build an arch without a keystone , or to sustain , one by a single column !
Other societies , which grew out of or succeeded these , had not the merits of either . The footsteps of the latter were marked by discord , assassination , and anarchy . In addition to the want of the proper principles of support , their means were illegal , and their object , if attained , would have resulted in injury , and not in the benefit of themselves or others . And however desirable it may be to curtail
an undue exercise of power by governments , and however advantageous the liberty of the people may appear in the abstract , it is no advantage , but a decided injury , if the people , from any cause , are not prepared for its enjoyment . We have had abundant evidence , d urine : the present century , to show that the southern nations of
Europe have not yet very clear ideas of a republic , and that they are not yet sufficiently well disciplined for self-government ; but if they had , by their intelligence and otherwise , been fully prepared for a democratic form of government , they had discarded all its supports . They utterly rejected all religion . They not only ceased to be
Catholics , but Christians . They did not rely on the King of kings and Governor of governors . The cap of Liberty was mounted upon the staff of the flag of Infidelity ! With ultra notions on the subject of freedom , and with agrarian
tendencies—their initiates' hands wreaking with the blood of the victims of assassination , —these societies alarmed all true patriots and friends of liberty ; and who , to prevent the greater evils of anarchy , wore compelled , in self-defence , to take sides with their respective governments .