{"product_id":"2940015718904","title":"The Age Of Reason","description":"Part One\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter I - The Author's Profession Of Faith\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter II - Of Missions And Revelations\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter III - Concerning The Character of Jesus Christ, And His History\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter IV - Of The Bases Of Christianity\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter V - Examination In Detail Of The Preceding Bases\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter VI - Of The True Theology\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter VII - Examination Of The Old Testament\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter VIII - Of The New Testament\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter IX - In What The True Revelation Consists\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter X - Concerning God, And The Lights Cast On His Existence And\u003cbr\u003e              Attributes By The Bible\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter XI - Of The Theology Of The Christians; And The True Theology\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter XII - The Effects Of Christianism On Education; Proposed Reforms\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter XIII - Comparison Of Christianism With The Religious Ideas\u003cbr\u003e                 Inspired By Nature\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter XIV - System Of The Universe\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter XV - Advantages Of The Existence Of Many Worlds In Each Solar\u003cbr\u003e               System\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter XVI - Applications Of The Preceding To The System Of The\u003cbr\u003e                Christians\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter XVII - Of The Means Employed In All Time, And Almost\u003cbr\u003e                 Universally, To Deceive The Peoples\u003cbr\u003e  Recapitulation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                          Part Two\u003cbr\u003e  Preface\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter I - The Old Testament\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter II - The New Testament\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter III - Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITOR'S INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWITH SOME RESULTS OF RECENT RESEARCHES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIN the opening year, 1793, when revolutionary France had beheaded its\u003cbr\u003eking, the wrath turned next upon the King of kings, by whose grace every\u003cbr\u003etyrant claimed to reign. But eventualities had brought among them a\u003cbr\u003egreat English and American heart--Thomas Paine. He had pleaded for Louis\u003cbr\u003eCaper--\"Kill the king but spare the man.\" Now he pleaded,--\"Disbelieve\u003cbr\u003ein the King of kings, but do not confuse with that idol the Father of\u003cbr\u003eMankind!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Paine's Preface to the Second Part of \"The Age of Reason\" he\u003cbr\u003edescribes himself as writing the First Part near the close of the year\u003cbr\u003e1793. \"I had not finished it more than six hours, in the state it has\u003cbr\u003esince appeared, before a guard came about three in the morning, with an\u003cbr\u003eorder signed by the two Committees of Public Safety and Surety General,\u003cbr\u003efor putting me in arrestation.\" This was on the morning of December 28.\u003cbr\u003eBut it is necessary to weigh the words just quoted--\"in the state it has\u003cbr\u003esince appeared.\" For on August 5, 1794, Francois Lanthenas, in an\u003cbr\u003eappeal for Paine's liberation, wrote as follows: \"I deliver to Merlin\u003cbr\u003ede Thionville a copy of the last work of T. Payne [The Age of Reason],\u003cbr\u003eformerly our colleague, and in custody since the decree excluding\u003cbr\u003eforeigners from the national representation. This book was written by\u003cbr\u003ethe author in the beginning of the year '93 (old style). I undertook its\u003cbr\u003etranslation before the revolution against priests, and it was published\u003cbr\u003ein French about the same time. Couthon, to whom I sent it, seemed\u003cbr\u003eoffended with me for having translated this work.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder the frown of Couthon, one of the most atrocious colleagues of\u003cbr\u003eRobespierre, this early publication seems to have been so effectually\u003cbr\u003esuppressed that no copy bearing that date, 1793, can be found in France\u003cbr\u003eor elsewhere. In Paine's letter to Samuel Adams, printed in the present\u003cbr\u003evolume, he says that he had it translated into French, to stay the\u003cbr\u003eprogress of atheism, and that he endangered his life \"by opposing\u003cbr\u003eatheism.\" The time indicated by Lanthenas as that in which he submitted\u003cbr\u003ethe work to Couthon would appear to be the latter part of March, 1793,\u003cbr\u003ethe fury against the priesthood having reached its climax in the decrees\u003cbr\u003eagainst them of March 19 and 26. If the moral deformity of Couthon, even\u003cbr\u003egreater than that of his body, be remembered, and the readiness with\u003cbr\u003ewhich death was inflicted for the most theoretical opinion not approved\u003cbr\u003eby the \"Mountain,\" it will appear probable that the offence given\u003cbr\u003eCouthon by Paine's book involved danger to him and his translator.\u003cbr\u003eOn May 31, when the Girondins were accused, the name of Lanthenas was\u003cbr\u003eincluded, and he barely escaped; and on the same day Danton persuaded\u003cbr\u003ePaine not to appear in the Convention, as his life might be in danger.\u003cbr\u003eWhether this was because of the \"Age of Reason,\" with its fling at the\u003cbr\u003e\"Goddess Nature\" or not, the statements of author and translator\u003cbr\u003eare harmonized by the fact that Paine prepared the manuscript, with\u003cbr\u003econsiderable additions and changes, for publication in English, as he\u003cbr\u003ehas stated in the Preface to Part II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comparison of the French and English versions, sentence by sentence,\u003cbr\u003eproved to me that the translation sent by Lanthenas to Merlin de\u003cbr\u003eThionville in 1794 is the same as that he sent to Couthon in 1793.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080855896304,"sku":"2940015718904","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015718904","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}