You say, “Moral justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty, even if the innocent were to offer itself; to suppose justice to do this, ... » Go

Upon what peculiar excellency, the popularity of your book is founded, I will not presume to determine; but, in the perusal of its pages, I ... » Go

You [Thomas Paine] say, “It is curious to observe, how the theory of what is called the Christian church, sprang out of the tail of ... » Go

Burlesque, assuming the form of reason, may, with the profligate and the ignorant, prove successful, in deception, for a season; but, the instant in which ... » Go

But, for the evils of which you complain, you have provided a singular remedy. Many, however, will think it too desperate, to be adopted without ... » Go

Let us suppose the case of a man who was born blind. He can have nothing but oral testimony of such things as are visible ... » Go

In the same page you say, "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, with which more than half ... » Go

The Bible, like many of the works of nature, appears to the greatest disadvantage to the most superficial beholder. But, when we exclude such secular ... » Go