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The Enlightenment and the Order of Free Nations
The role of the order of free nations with all its degrees and secret clasps ought not to be forgotten. Voltaire and Ben Franklin belong to the same lodge, the lodge is the three sisters. The enlightened citizen soon found himself a member of an emerging new aristocracy. He could easily join in the ridicule of which Richard E. O. aimed at the code of values of the old aristocracy. It was chiefly this sort of enlightened citizen who failed the coffee houses of London; he inspired the revival of classical architecture.