Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great…

Thomas Paine
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Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ✨ Thomas Paine (1791). Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution, p.161
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