โ Thomas Paine
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2001
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The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
โฆ LIBER โฆ
The Age of Reason
โ Scribed by Thomas Paine; Moncure Daniel Conway
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 340 KB
- Edition
- First Edition, Thus
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst," declared Thomas Paine, adding, "every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity." Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with his final work, The Age of Reason. This coolly reasoned polemic influenced religious thinking throughout the world at the dawn of the nineteenth century, and its resonance remains undiminished by time.
The selfsame humanist and egalitarian views that made Paine a popular figure of the American Revolution brought him into frequent conflict with political authorities. Parts of The Age of Reason were written in a French jail, where Paine was confined for his opposition to the execution of Louis XVI. An atack on revealed religion from the deist point of view -- embodied by Paine's credo, "I believe in...
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