A Refutation of Every Argument Brought Against the Truth of Christianity, and Revealed Religion, by Thomas Paine, in the First Part of His Work, ... Part of His Work, Called the Age of Reason - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1150424230 ISBN 13: 9781150424236

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822. Excerpt: ... b look tfwflMgb a vast chasoaof manj hundred-year to the respectable characters we call the ancients. Had the progreision efi knowledge fjone on proportionally with the stock that before existed, that ch.nsm would have been tilled up with characters rising superior ia knowledge to ehch other; and thoie ancients, we now so much admire, would have appeared Tf spedahly in the back ground of the scene. But tie Christian system laid all waste; and If we take our stand ahout the feeirtfling' of the sixteenth century, we look through that long chasm, to tSe' times of the ancients as over a vast sandy desert, In which not a shrub appears to intercept the vision to the fertile bills beyond." There is something in the efficient cause of the progression or retrogression of knowledge among mankind, which has hitherto escaped the eye of human speculation. Civil freedom, and political greatness, have, at one time, Been thought to encourage the developement of genius., MMTdirect the labours of science; at another, the cause Iftfs resolved itself into the influence of example: here.philosophy has referred it to the gift of intellect alone; and tfcert to the fostering smiles of patronage; under all of Munich; History tells us, that some eras have been distinguished for knowledge, and some for ignorance. But the assertion that the "Christian system raid all waste," is a malignant faUhood. The Christian system had not the power, any more than the disposition, to overturn the nionume'nts of science. It never numbered, Irke the Goths or Saracens its thousands in arms. And he who shall' enlleavour to preach down philosophy, will waste his labours. If was barbarism that persecuted learning; and the motive was either fear or contempt, or perhaps hoih. See page W8i'&r'.' But when...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1150424230
• ISBN 13: 9781150424236
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