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Updated: July 14, 2025
"'Twould add thirty years to your life and think what a blessing that would be to me; not that I shall live a tenth part of the time thirty years, if you'd take a nice little house somewhere at Brixton. "I must say it, Caudle, that's so like you: any place that's really genteel you can't abide. Now Brixton and Baalam Hill I think delightful. So select!
For God sometimes speaketh by Prophets, whose persons he hath not accepted; as he did by Baalam; and as he foretold Saul of his death, by the Witch of Endor. Again in the next verse, "Every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Flesh, is not of Christ. And this is the Spirit of Antichrist."
The Prophet Baalam was not more surprised when his ass turned round her head and spoke to him! And what else didst thou note concerning this man? I see those who meet thee must beware of thy observation, as well as of thy battle-axe."
Baalam only saw it afterwards, when his wits were disordered by the wonder of a talking donkey. Thus the prophet followed the ass, as wise men follow fools. Superstition is worse than Atheism, in Lord Bacon's judgment; the one is unbelief, he says, but the other is contumely; and "it were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him."
What does he call them but hypocrites, whited walls, painted sepulchres, fools, and blind? and tells them that they made men more the children of hell than they were before. The apostle did use to weep when he spake of these professors, such offence he knew they were and would be in the world. One Baalam, one Jeroboam, one Ahab; O how many fish bring such to Satan's net!
If Paine recanted, there is not the slightest doubt about that donkey making that speech to Mr. Baalam not the slightest and if Paine did not recant, then the whole thing is a mistake. I want to show that Thomas Paine died as he has lived, a friend of man and without superstition, and if you will stay here I will do it. "New York, April 21, 1818.
Baalam was not more astonished when the ass he was riding rebuked him than the ruling classes of America seem to have been when the farmers, toward the close of the last century, undertook to have something to say about the government of the country. "From time to time in the progress of history the condition of the farmer has for brief periods been tolerable.
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