is an honour to the human society) said,[1] after his secession from the association, of all secret societies in general, and of that of the Illuminators in particular, "All these secret associations are useless with regard to their efficacy, because they generally lay too much stress on miserable trifles and absurd ceremonies; speak an emblematical language, that admits of many different interpretations, act after ill-digested plans; are imprudent in the choice of their members, consequently soon degenerate; and although they could, in the beginning, have advantages before public Societies, yet, in the sequel, are infected by defects of which the world justly complains. Whoever is animated with a desire of performing something great and useful, finds, in civil and domestic life, many opportunities of doing it, which not one improves as he ought to do. It first must be proved that nothing remainsto
- ↑ Veber den Vmgang mit Mensthen. Vol. III, page 135-138.
