[535] Ibid., p. 374.
[536] Ibid., p. 398.
[537] The Grand Orient, according to Robison, represented the association of all the improved Masonic lodges of France. Its Grand Master was the Duke of Orléans. Cf. ibid., p. 381.
[538] Ibid., pp. 400 et seq.
[539] Ibid., p. 376.
[540] Ibid., pp. 376 et seq.
[541] Robison, op. cit., p. 405.
[542] Ibid., p. 402. Robison regarded the famous Jacobin Club in Paris as “just one of those Lodges.” (Robison, p. 406. Cf. ibid., p. 402.) He allowed his statement to stand, however, without making any effort to substantiate it. Further, he held that the political committees in these “illuminated” lodges of France were in correspondence with similar committees in Germany, Holland, Austria, and Switzerland. Cf. ibid., pp. 406 et seq., 414 et seq., 420. The contradictory character of his “evidence” is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that he treats the Masonic lodges of Paris as trying to seduce the lodges of German Freemasons. Cf. Ibid., p. 418.
[543] Ibid., p. 402.
[544] Ibid., p. 405.