The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paineis a deistic pamphlet, written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, that criticizes institutionalized religion and challenges the legitimacy of the Bible. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807, it was a bestseller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. British audiences, however, fearing increased political radicalism as a result of the French Revolution, received it with more hostility. The Age of Reason presents common deistic...
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paineis a deistic pamphlet, written by eighteenth-century British ra...
A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defense of the rights and good sense of ordinary individuals, and his penetrating critiques of arbitrary power. This volume contains Paine's explosive Common Sense in its entirety, including the oft-ignored Appendix, as well as selections from his other major writings: The American Crisis, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason. It also contains...
A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholar...
This book is an impassioned and forthright attempt to awaken British natives from their sleep before their culture is obliterated. It also provides one alarmed citizen's brief sketch of a plan for action.
This book is an impassioned and forthright attempt to awaken British natives from their sleep before their culture is obliterated. It also provides on...
"Je vous presente un petit Traite pour la defense de ces principes de liberte que votre vertu exemplaire a si eminemment contribue a etablir. Puissent les Droits de l'Homme devenir aussi universellement connus que votre bienveillance le desire; et puissiez-vous avoir le bonheur de voir le Nouveau-Monde regenerer l'ancien...""
"Je vous presente un petit Traite pour la defense de ces principes de liberte que votre vertu exemplaire a si eminemment contribue a etablir. Puissent...
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thin...
In the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace every tyrant claimed to reign. But eventualities had brought among them a great English and American heart -- Thomas Paine. He had pleaded for Louis Caper -- "Kill the king but spare the man." Now he pleaded, -- "Disbelieve in the King of kings, but do not confuse with that idol the Father of Mankind "
In the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace every tyrant ...
"A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal" from Thomas Paine. English-american political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary (1737-1809).
"A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal" from Thomas Paine. English-american political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary (1737-180...
