Freda Boot
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could not be undermined without first taking away the foundation of Christian civilization upon which it rested, and which unquestionably, even for Christian schismatics and heretics, was the temporal and the spiritual authority of the Pope.
Having no idea of a divine preservation of the Christian religion, they judged that the destruction of the temporal power would lead inevitably to the destruction of the spiritual.
And as experience proved, that it would be useless to attempt to destroy both altogether and
They then set all their agencies at work to destroy the temporal power first and
They therefore determined to create and ferment to the utmost extent a political discontent amongst the populations of the different states into which the Italian peninsula was divided.
Now this was a difficult task in the face of the experience which the Italian people had gained of the revolutions and constant political changes brought by the French from the first attempt of the Republic to the last of the Empire.
The Congress of Vienna restored most of the ancient Italian states as well as the states of the Church to the legitimate rulers.
Peace and prosperity beyond what had been known for years began to reign in the peninsula.
The people en masse were profoundly contented.
They were more Catholic than ever, notwithstanding all that the revolutionary agents of France did to pervert them.
But there remained a dangerous fraction amidst the population not at all satisfied with the change which had so much improved the nation generally.
This fraction consisted of those individuals and their children who benefited by the revolutionary regime.
They were the men who made themselves deputies in Rome, Naples, and elsewhere, and by the aid of French revolutionary bayonets, seized upon church property and became enriched by public spoliation.
These still remained revolutionary to the core.
Then there was the interest affected by their party, and
And finally, there was that uneasy class educated by the many cheap universities of the country in too great number, the sons of advocates and other professional men, who, tinged with liberalism, easily became the prey of the designing men who still remained addicted to the principles and were leagued in the secret organizations of Weishaupt and his fellow atheists.
Even one of these youths, corrupted and excited to ambition by the adroit manipulation of these emissaries of Satan, still active, though more imperceptible than ever,
Would be sufficient to kindle a flame amongst his fellows capable of creating a wide discontent.
Aided then by such elements already at hand for their purposes, Weishhaupt and his hidden directory determined to kindle such a flame of revolution in Italy as, in its effects, should before long do more harm to religion and order than even the French Revolution had caused in its sanguinary but brief career.
They effected this by the formation on the darkest lines of illuminated masonry of the terrible sect of the Carbonari.
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