If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same; and as several of our passions are strongly charactered by the animal world, prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.
Here, Paine compares prejudice to a spider, indicating that it can poison our minds just as a spider poisons its prey.
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