"Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian system may be to believe or to acknowledge it, it is nevertheless true, that the age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.There was more knowledge in the world before that period, than for many centuries afterwards; and as to religious knowledge, the Christian system, as already said, was only another species of mythology; and the mythology to which it succeeded, was a corruption of an ancient system of t"

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Thomas Paine was an English-born American writer and political pamphleteer whose works shaped revolutionary thought in the Atlantic world. He is best known for Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason.

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