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Priestley, then in America, answered Paine's work, and in quoting less than a page from the "Age of Reason" he made three alterations, one of which changed "church mythologists" into "Christian mythologists," and also raised the editorial footnote into the text, omitting the reference to Mosheim.
Two hours after midnight his adjutant-general took to General Paine General Mackall's unconditional surrender. Stanley's division followed Paine's, and was followed by Hamilton's. These were overtaken by night and went into bivouac about half way between the crossing and Tiptonville, and learned of the surrender next morning while on the way to join Paine.
This quartet has all the heavenly sweetness of Handel's "He shall feed his flock," which it suggests by similarity of subject, though not by similarity of treatment; but in a certain quality of inwardness, or religious meditativeness, it reminds one more of Mr. Paine's favourite master, Bach. Thus the noblest choral ever written, the "Sleepers, wake," in "St.
The Fifth Corps being already intrenched across the Amelia Court House road facing north, I placed the Sixth on its right and the Second on its left as they reached the ground. As the enemy had been feeling us ever since morning to learn what he was up to I directed Crook to send Davies's brigade on a reconnoissance to Paine's crossroads.
He may, for example, be profoundly convinced of the truth of the Christian religion; and he is called on, we will suppose, for books attacking Christianity, like Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason," or Robert G. Ingersoll's lectures on "Myth and Miracle."
His part here was not discreditable. He recovered his liberty and his seat, and was rather a favourite with Napoleon. A few years later still, Cobbett, in one of his sillier moods, brought Paine's bones back to England, which did not in the least want them.
An hereditary rule is as great an absurdity as an hereditary professorship of mathematics, a place supposed by Dr. Franklin to exist in some German university. Paine grew bolder as he advanced: "If monarchy is a useless thing, why is it kept up anywhere? and if a necessary thing, how can it be dispensed with?" This is a pretty good specimen of one of Paine's dialectical methods.
The coarse and violent expression, as well as the unpopular matter, of Paine's works may have led to his being rather unfairly treated in the hot fights of the Revolutionary period; but the attempts which have recently been made to whitewash him are a mere mistake of reaction, or paradox, or pure stupidity.
To this day the respectable Christian Church or chapel goer shudders at the name of the "infidel," Tom Paine. But in point of honour, of virtue, of humanity, and general good character, not one of the Bible heroes I have mentioned was worthy to clean Tom Paine's shoes. Now, it states in the Bible that God loved Jacob, and hated Esau.
Banks now placed Weitzel in command of the right wing of the army, comprising his own brigade under Thomas, Dwight's brigade of Grover's division under Van Zandt, together forming a temporary division under Dwight, the six regiments that remained of Paine's division after the heavy detachments, and the two colored regiments under Nelson.
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