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Discuss how this fear of a Bavarian Illuminati conspiracy reflected cultural and political anxiety on the part of people such as Morse and Yale University president Timothy Dwight.

Topic: The Masonic Conspiracy In late Spring of 1789 Jedidiah Morse, a prominent New England clergyman, warned of a Mason conspiracy that sought to undermine Christian and republican founding principles of the new formed, United States of America. In an analytical essay, discuss how this fear of a Bavarian Illuminati conspiracy reflected cultural and political […]