“I had not finished it more than six hours, in the state it has sinceĪppeared, before a guard came about three in the morning, with an order signedīy the two Committees of Public Safety and Surety General, for putting me inĪrrestation.” This was on the morning of December 28. He describes himself as writing the First Part near the close of the year 1793. In Paine’s Preface to the Second Part of “The Age of Reason” King of kings, but do not confuse with that idol the Father of Mankind!” King but spare the man.” Now he pleaded,-“Disbelieve in the But eventualities had brought among them a great English and American Wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace every tyrant claimed In the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its king, the OF THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN ALL TIME, AND ALMOST UNIVERSALLY, TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLESĮDITOR’S INTRODUCTION WITH SOME RESULTS OF RECENT RESEARCHES. APPLICATION OF THE PRECEDING TO THE SYSTEM OF THE CHRISTIANSĬHAPTER XVII. ADVANTAGES OF THE EXISTENCE OF MANY WORLDS IN EACH SOLAR SYSTEMĬHAPTER XVI. COMPARISON OF CHRISTIANISM WITH THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS INSPIRED BY NATUREĬHAPTER XV. THE EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANISM ON EDUCATION PROPOSED REFORMSĬHAPTER XIII. OF THE THEOLOGY OF THE CHRISTIANS AND THE TRUE THEOLOGYĬHAPTER XII. CONCERNING GOD, AND THE LIGHTS CAST ON HIS EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES BY THE BIBLEĬHAPTER XI. IN WHAT THE TRUE REVELATION CONSISTSĬHAPTER X. EXAMINATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENTĬHAPTER IX. EXAMINATION IN DETAIL OF THE PRECEDING BASESĬHAPTER VII. CONCERNING THE CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST, AND HIS HISTORYĬHAPTER V. THE AUTHOR’S PROFESSION OF FAITHĬHAPTER III. *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE *** The Writings of Thomas Paine The Age of Reason - Part I and II by Thomas Paine Collected And Edited By Moncure Daniel Conway VOLUME IV.

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