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"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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"The Rights of Man: Being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on the French revolution."
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Date: February 1791
"The mind, in discovering truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)