[1.]Rapid Disintegration of Puritanism after the Revolution13
[2.]Ominous Discontent with the Standing Order33
[3.]Alarms due to the Spread of Religious Radicalism and Scepticism66

[CHAPTER II]

POLITICAL ENTANGLEMENTS AND HYSTERIA

[1.]The Situation prior to 1798103
[2.]The Situation from 1798 to 1800122

[CHAPTER III]

THE EUROPEAN ORDER OF THE ILLUMINATI

[1.]The Rise and the Disappearance of the Order142
[2.]The Legend of the Order and its Literary Communication to New England186

[CHAPTER IV]

THE ILLUMINATI AGITATION IN NEW ENGLAND

[1.]Morse Precipitates the Controversy229
[2.]Inconclusive Developments of Morse’s Second Formal Deliverance261
[3.]Morse Submits his Inept Documentary Evidence287
[4].Freemasonry’s Embarrassment and Protest321
[5.]Attempts of Democrats to Fix the Countercharge of Illuminism upon the Federalists345