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The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (The Thinkers Library 4th impression 1951)
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The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (The Thinkers Library 4th impression 1951). A5, Hard cover, 236 pages. Cover bit worn. Book inside in good readable condition. News clippings in front of book.
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of deism. As the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called "a corset maker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".
The Age of Reason represents the results of years of study and reflection by Thomas Paine on the place of religion in society.
Paine wrote: "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; 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."
The cool rationale of Paine's The Age of Reason influenced religious thinking throughout the world; and its pervasieve influence continues to the present day.
