Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?
ADAM WEISHAUPTFor thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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Illuminate the opposition.
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And it will fire them the more, and cause them to work for us with zeal, without knowing that they do so.
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This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
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Give them hints of emancipation from the tyranny of public opinion, and of standing up for themselves;
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.
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If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
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Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?.
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We must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
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The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
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It will be an immense relief to their enslaved minds to be freed from any one bond of restraint
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It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.
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These should therefore be our chief study; we should insinuate ourselves into their good opinion
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Cultivates the social virtues; and animates them by a great, a feasable, a speedy prospect of universal happiness,
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And they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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