Kings conspired against thrones.

The princes of Gotha gave Weishaupt an asylum.

Augustus of Saxony, prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, the prince of Neuvied, even the coadjutor of the ecclesiastical principalities on the banks of the Rhine, those of Mayence, Worms, and Constance, signalised themselves by their ardour for the mystic doctrines of freemasonry or the illuminati.
Cagliostro was astounding Strasburgh--Cardinal de Rohan ruined himself, and bent before his voice.

Like at the fall of great empires--like at the cradle of great things--these signs appeared every where.

The most infallible was the general convulsion of human ideas.