The Paine Festival: Celebration of the 119th Anniversary of the Birth-day of Thomas Paine at Cincinnati, Jan. 29, 1856 |
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... Age , better than did Thomas Paine , and no man has given clearer evidence of genius or inspiration . Thus he says : " The present Age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of Reason ... Age , given utterance to a more sublime faith ...
... Age , better than did Thomas Paine , and no man has given clearer evidence of genius or inspiration . Thus he says : " The present Age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of Reason ... Age , given utterance to a more sublime faith ...
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... AGE OF REASON . " Let us take his own solemn declaration of the motives of that work . The people of France , he says , oppressed for ages by religious superstition and despotism , were rushing into the opposite extreme of a blank athe ...
... AGE OF REASON . " Let us take his own solemn declaration of the motives of that work . The people of France , he says , oppressed for ages by religious superstition and despotism , were rushing into the opposite extreme of a blank athe ...
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... Age , better than did Thomas Paine , nd no man has given clearer evidence of genius or inspiration . ' hus he says : " The present Age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of Reason ... Age , given utterance to a more sublime faith ...
... Age , better than did Thomas Paine , nd no man has given clearer evidence of genius or inspiration . ' hus he says : " The present Age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of Reason ... Age , given utterance to a more sublime faith ...
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... AGE OF REASON . " Let us take his own solemn declaration of the motives of that work . The people of France , he says , oppressed for ages by religious superstition and despotism , were rushing into the opposite extreme of a blank athe ...
... AGE OF REASON . " Let us take his own solemn declaration of the motives of that work . The people of France , he says , oppressed for ages by religious superstition and despotism , were rushing into the opposite extreme of a blank athe ...
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... Age of Reason , " the most abused , perhaps , of all human productions , with this noble purpose : " To relieve and tranquilize the minds of millions , and free them from hard thoughts of the Almighty . " A noble purpose ; a sublime ...
... Age of Reason , " the most abused , perhaps , of all human productions , with this noble purpose : " To relieve and tranquilize the minds of millions , and free them from hard thoughts of the Almighty . " A noble purpose ; a sublime ...
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Page 1 - Any person who has made observations on the state and progress of the human mind, by observing his own, cannot but have observed that there are two distinct classes of what are called Thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. I have always made it a rule to treat...
Page 2 - I trouble not myself about the manner of future existence. I content myself with believing, even to positive conviction, that the power that gave me existence is able to continue it, in any form and manner he pleases, either with or without this body ; and it appears more probable to me that I shall continue to exist hereafter, than that I should have had existence, as I now have, before that existence began.
Page 3 - Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.
Page 2 - I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.