The Age of Reason (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Pain
- First Published: 1794
- Type of Work: Religious
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: Freedom, Slavery or slaves, Religion, Christianity, Democracy, Atheism, Reason or reasoning, Tyrants or tyranny
Critical Evaluation:
In The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine is driven by the same impulses that energize such earlier works as the pamphlet Common Sense (1776) and series of papers gathered under the title The Crisis (1776). In The Rights of Man (1791-1792) he expresses his hatred of enslavement and his belief that all people have the natural right to be free of all tyranny—physical, mental, and spiritual. Benjamin Franklin once said, “Where liberty is, there is my country.” Paine replied, “Where liberty is not, there is mine.” This idealistic...
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