I have not been able to find who personated Minos, Euriphon, Celsius, Mahomet, Hercules, Socrates, Philippo Strozzi, Euclides, and some others who have been uncommonly active in carrying forward the great cause. The chief publications for giving us regular accounts of the whole, (besides the original writings,) are, 1. _Grosse Absicht des Illuminaten Ordens._ 2. ---- _Nachtrages_ (3.) _an denselben_. 3. _Weishaupt's improved System._ 4. _System des Illum. Ordens aus dem Original-schriften gezogen._ I may now be permitted to make a few reflections on the accounts already given of this Order, which has so distinctly concentrated the casual and scattered efforts of its prompters, _the Chevaliers Bienfaisants_, the _Philalethes_, and _Amis Reunis_ of France, and carried on the system of enlightening and reforming the world. The great aim professed by the Order is to _make men happy_; and the means professed to be employed, as the only and surely effective, is _making them good_; and this is to be brought about by _enlightening the mind_, and _freeing it from the dominion of superstition and prejudices_. This purpose is effected by its _producing a just and steady morality_. This done, and becoming universal, there can be little doubt but that the peace of society will be the consequence,--that government, subordination, and all the disagreeable coercions of civil governments will be unnecessary,--and that society may go on peaceably in a state of perfect liberty and equality.