" The Illuminati had been institutionalized in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt at the German University of Ingoldstadt, as guardians of the rationalist Enlightenment. Their aim was to illuminate the world until (as he argued) ‘Princes and nations will disappear without violence from the earth, the human race will become one family and the world the abode of reasonable men. "

― Paul Johnson , Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky