THE AGE OF REASON

                          

                               By Thomas Paine

To my fellow – citizens of the United States of America:

   I put the fallowing  work under your protection. It contains my opinion upon Religion. You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenously supported the Right of every  Man to his own opinion,  however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another his right,  makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, becaus he precludes himself  the right of changing it .

  The most formidable weapon agaist errors of every kind is Reason.  I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.

 Your affectionate friend  and fellow –citisen,

                                                                            THOMAS PAINE

Luxembourg sth Pluviose, Second Year o the French Republic,one and undiviseble,  January 27, O. S. 1794.

                   (Writed in Robespirre's Bastilia ?)