Synonym: age of discretion. Dalam esai ini, Paine mengungkapkan argumennya."I BELIEVE IN ONE GOD AND NO MORE… I BELIEVE IN THE EQUALITY OF MAN AND I BELIEVE THAT RELIGIOUS DUTIES CONSIST OF DOING JUSTICE, LOVING MERCY, AND ENDEAVORING TO MAKE OUR FELLOW CREATURES HAPPY": VERY SCARCE 1794 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF PART I OF PAINE'S AGE OF REASONage of reason ( usually uncountable, plural ages of reason ) ( Roman Catholicism) Seven years of age, at which age a person is morally liable for the sins that he or she commits. Thomas Paine mengenai agama. The term age of reason was first described in a 1976 article by child psychiatrists Theodore Shapiro and Richard Perry titled 'Latency Revisited: The Age of Seven, Plus or Minus One.' But the age of seven has been considered the age where common sense and maturity start to kick in, for centuries.Esai The Age of Reason (Part I) merupakan sebuah tulisan yang berisi pandangan.
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Handsomely bound in crimson morocco gilt."Part I of the Age of Reason was written in Paris in 1793—in haste, because although Paine had originally been lionized by the French as a true ally in the cause of liberté, égalité, fraternité, he soon became disillusioned by the increasing violence of the revolution. Small octavo (4-3/4 by 7 inches), 19th-century full crimson morocco rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt-embossed seals, raised bands, marbled endpapers.Age of reason definition, any period in history, especially the 18th century in France, England, etc., characterized by a critical approach to religious.First American edition of Paine's landmark Age of Reason, "his great work of this period" (ANB), This very scarce and important 1794 New York edition was "the first edition printed in our country" (Gimbel-Yale), copyrighted and published only a few months after the Paris and London first editions all early editions in English are highly desirable. Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology.
His writings display his dedication to the principle that people everywhere would see that rights and liberty form the very foundation of human life and that no person should ever willingly relinquish them without a fierce struggle. Paine believed that a truly religious man need not belong to a church or even attend religious services… A man must devote his life, as he had, to performing good works and leave the world a better place than he found it. In one of the more disgraceful manifestations of ingratitude by any American administration, Paine was left for more than nine months to rot in prison… Only when the freethinking James Monroe replaced Gouverneur Morris as minister to France did the American government exert its influence to obtain Paine's freedom" (Jacoby, Freethinkers)."Ignored by the French, the book was extraordinarily successful in Britain and America… Although Paine's work had originally been composed to keep the French from 'running headlong into atheism,' it was immediately referred to, in the English-speaking world, as the 'Devil's Prayer-Book' or 'the Bible of Atheism.' Age of Reason was not the first critique of the Biblical text to be published during the Age of Enlightenment, but it was the first one to have been written in such simple and direct language… a clever mixture of popular common sense and scientific analysis that could be easily grasped by the mass of ordinary people" (Vincent, Transatlantic Republican, 14-15)."As a Deist and a republican writer and activist, Paine believed that religious beliefs had to be reasonable and that God had given human beings control over their lives to perform good deeds. Arrested on Robespierre's order, Paine was able to deliver the manuscript to his friend Joel Barlow, who was also a close friend of Jefferson's, while en route to the Luxembourg Prison on December 28, 1793.
Gimbel states that "copies printed cheaply in English were sent to America, but a much finer edition was printed in Paris for circulation in England" (Gimbel-Yale 88).John Fellows copyrighted the work in New York on June 17, 1794, as noted in the statement on the copyright page and in newspaper ads published by the Clerk of the District of New-York in June and July. Eaton) is probably the first London edition. The first edition in English is likely Barrois' 77-page Paris edition, and a 55-page edition with joint imprint (printed in Paris by Barroid and sold in London by D.L. In March 1794 the work was published in Paris in English (by Barrois) and in French (by Gueffier).
National Convention: 192-194, and publisher's advertisement for "Books Lately Published": 195-202. This copy conforming to ESTC pagination: Age of Reason: vi, (7), 8-151, (152) Epitome of Lequinio's Prejudice Destroyed: (153-155), 156-188 Twenty-Five Precepts of Reason: (189), 190-192 variant pagination for: France. Without the same political and legal baggage that may have deterred many British publishers from printing The Age of Reason, the work was taken up by a variety of printers throughout the United States… In mid-June of 1794, New York printer John Fellows, who shared Paine's Deistic beliefs and later became a close friend, printed the first American edition of The Age of Reason" (Patrick Wallace Hughes, Antidotes to Deism: A Reception History of Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason, 1794-1809, 46-47). After all, Paine had dedicated the work to his fellow citizens of the United States, and he obviously hoped that it would find fertile ground in his beloved America. In September 1794 Fellows published a cheaper second edition with fewer pages, and a number of other publishers issued editions in America before the end of the year."The first part of The Age of Reason quickly found its way to the United States. Richard Gimbel noted that it "was the first edition printed in our country, but it undoubtedly was preceded by the circulation of the Paris edition, in English" (Gimbel-Yale 89).
Each board displaying a gilt-embossed seal with the motto, "Esse et videri," on a banner above an eagle rising with a branch, possibly belonging to William Alexander Duer, who served as a judge of the New York Supreme Court before becoming President of Columbia University (then Columbia College), serving from 1829-42. "Tom Paine's" in an unidentified manuscript hand above title page. Twenty-Five Precepts of Reason authored by J.
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