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 \nThe Age of Reason  \nThomas Paine  \nThe Age of Reason  \nTable of Contents  \nTHE AGE OF REASON  \nEDITOR'S INTRODUCTION…2  \nCHAPTER I - THE AUTHOR'S PROFESSION OF FAITH.…10  \nCHAPTER II -OF MISSIONS AND REVELATIONS   11 CHAPTER III - CONCERNING THE CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST, AND HIS HISTORY   12  \nCHAPTER IV-OF THE BASES OF CHRISTIANITY   13 CHAPTER V - EXAMINATION IN DETAIL OF THE PRECEDING BASES   14  \nCHAPTER VI -OF THE TRUE THEOLOGY   14  \nCHAPTER VII - EXAMINATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT   15  \nCHAPTER VIII-OF THE NEW TESTAMENT   18  \nCHAPTER IX - IN WHAT THE TRUE REVELATION CONSISTS   20  \nCHAPTER X - CONCERNING GOD, AND THE LIGHTS CAST ON HIS EXISTENCE …21  \nCHAPTER XI - OF THE THEOLOGY OF THE CHRISTIANS; AND THE TRUE THEOLOGY   22  \nCHAPTER XII - THE EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANISM ON EDUCATION; PROPOSED …25  \nCHAPTER XIII - COMPARISON OF CHRISTIANISM WITH THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS …27  \nCHAPTER XIV-SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE   30 CHAPTER XV - ADVANTAGES OF THE EXISTENCE OF MANY WORLDS IN EACH SOLAR …32  \nCHAPTER XVI - APPLICATION OF THE PRECEDING TO THE SYSTEM OF THE CHRISTIANS …32  \nCHAPTER XVII - OF THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN ALL TIME, AND ALMOST …33  \nTHE AGE OF REASON-PART II  \nPREFACE …37  \nCHAPTER I -THE OLD TESTAMENT …38  \nCHAPTER II -THE NEW TESTAMENT …66  \nCHAPTER III-CONCLUSION …78  \nEdited by Moncure Daniel Conway  \nEDITOR'S INTRODUCTION WITH SOME RESULTS OF RECENT RESEARCHES.  \nIN 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 Caper—\"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!\"  \nIn 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.\" This was on the morning of December 28. But it is necessary to weigh the words just quoted—\"in the state it has since appeared.\" For on August 5, 1794, Francois Lanthenas, in an appeal for Paine's liberation, wrote as follows: \"I deliver to Merlin de Thionville a copy of the last work of T. Payne [The Age of Reason], formerly our colleague, and in custody since the decree excluding foreigners from the national representation. This book was written by the author in the beginning of the year'93 (old style) . I undertook its translation before the revolution against priests, and it was published in French about the same time. Couthon, to whom I sent it, seemed offended with me for having translated this work.\"  \nUnder the frown of Couthon, one of the most atrocious colleagues of Robespierre, this early publication seems to have been so effectually suppressed that no copy bearing that date, 1793, can be found in France or elsewhere. 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