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Secret societies and subversive movements

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By Nesta Helen Webster
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This work surveys the history of clandestine associations and their role in successive revolutionary movements, tracing alleged continuities from early centuries to modern upheavals. The author argues that organized networks exploited popular suffering and ideological currents to attack Christianity, traditional social structures, property relations, and ecclesiastical institutions, and that episodes like the French and Bolshevik revolutions are manifestations of this longer campaign. The book combines documentary research and polemical interpretation to describe methods, influence, and intellectual support for subversion, and critiques contemporary cultural and academic sympathy for revolutionary causes.

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Title: Secret societies and subversive movements

Author: Nesta Helen Webster

Release date: August 23, 2006 [eBook #19104]

Language: English

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SECRET SOCIETIES

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SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENTS

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NESTA H. WEBSTER

CHRISTIAN BOOK CLUB OF AMERICA

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"There is in Italy a power which we seldom mention in this House ... I mean the secret societies.... It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe--the whole of Italy and France and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries--is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superficies of the earth is now being covered with railroads. And what are their objects? They do not attempt to conceal them. They do not want constitutional government; they do not want ameliorated institutions ... they want to change the tenure of land, to drive out the present owners of the soil and to put an end to ecclesiastical establishments. Some of them may go further...." (DISRAELI in the House of Commons, July 14, 1856.)