The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine
- Pages
- about 263
- Category
- History
- Language
- English
- Reading time
- 4.8 h at 250 wpm
From the opening
THE AGE OF REASON — PART I
CHAPTER I. THE AUTHOR’S PROFESSION OF FAITH
CHAPTER II. OF MISSIONS AND REVELATIONS
CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST, AND HIS HISTORY
CHAPTER IV. OF THE BASES OF CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER V. EXAMINATION IN DETAIL OF THE PRECEDING BASES
CHAPTER VI. OF THE TRUE THEOLOGY
CHAPTER VII. EXAMINATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
CHAPTER VIII. OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
CHAPTER IX. IN WHAT THE TRUE REVELATION CONSISTS
CHAPTER X. CONCERNING GOD, AND THE LIGHTS CAST ON HIS EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES BY THE BIBLE
CHAPTER XI. OF THE THEOLOGY OF THE CHRISTIANS; AND THE TRUE THEOLOGY
CHAPTER XII. THE EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANISM ON EDUCATION; PROPOSED REFORMS
CHAPTER XIII. COMPARISON OF CHRISTIANISM WITH THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS INSPIRED BY NATURE
CHAPTER XIV. SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE
CHAPTER XV. ADVANTAGES OF THE EXISTENCE OF MANY WORLDS IN EACH SOLAR SYSTEM
CHAPTER XVI. APPLICATION OF THE PRECEDING TO THE SYSTEM OF THE CHRISTIANS
CHAPTER XVII. OF THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN ALL TIME, AND ALMOST UNIVERSALLY, TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLES
RECAPITULATION
THE AGE OF REASON — PART II
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE OLD TESTAMENT
CHAPTER II. THE NEW TESTAMENT
CHAPTER III. CONCLUSION
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 Capet—“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 Paine’s Preface to the Second Part of “The Age of Reason” he
describes himself as writing the First Part near the close of the year
1793. “I had not finished it more than six hours, in the state it has
since appeared, before a guard came about three in the morning, with an
order signed by the two Committees of Public Safety and Surety General,
for putting me in arrestation.”
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