[Fedora]

Thanks for the references. I'm familiar with Voltaire and the Encyclopédistes and Barruel's book, which has been largely vindicated recently by follow-up research in French not widely available in English yet. James H. Billington's Fire in the Minds of Men fills in some of the connections between Marx and his French predecessors via esp. the Carbonari, Philippe Buonarroti, Auguste Blanqui, and the League of the Just. I knew Jefferson and Paine interacted with some of the same movements; didn't know about Dwight and Mann and Barlowe--will look into that.

[otness_e]

Sorry, forgot to post the reference regarding Paine and Barlowe:

https://thekeep.eiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4779&context=theses

As far as Timothy Dwight, you misunderstand me, he actually wrote a sermon pretty much condemning the French Revolution and directly tied it to Voltaire and Diderot’s antics, essentially a summary of what Barruel wrote condemning the Jacobins and exposing what instigated their actions.

Here’s the sermon:

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/JAN—11-—Plot-to-destroy-Christianity-revealed-by-Yale-President-Timothy-Dwight.html?soid=1108762609255&aid=CbibQMZY5JY

As far as Horace Mann, I’m mostly referring to this bit, especially when he essentially brainstormed America’s public education system: https://www.theblaze.com/contributions/why-liberals-think-being-educated-means-being-liberal