Thomas Paine Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: February 9, 1737 - June 8, 1809
Birthday: February 9
Death: June 8
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.
source: Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.197
topic: Philosophy, Teaching, School, Properties Of Matter, Natural Philosophy
