On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
The present age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of Reason, and the present generation will appear to the future as the Adam of a new world.
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Thomas Paine
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Editor's note · Context
Paine, in "Rights of Man," proclaims his era as the "Age of Reason" and its generation as the founders of a new world order.
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