The entire legalist-Humanist-Protestant-Jansenist-Enlightenment alliance became a new Grand Coalition which seized upon the image of freedom and placed it on its banners. All those who yearned to be free had to fight Catholicism. Dr. John Rao demonstrates that what these new defenders of freedom were actually promoting was a world in which knowledge was meant to gain power over nature and other men, and freedom was defined as the Triumph of the Will.