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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

What Tom Paine had to say About Quakers

"The religion that approaches the nearest of all others to true deism, in the moral and benign part thereof, is that professed by the Quakers ... though I revere their philanthropy, I cannot help smiling at [their] conceit; ... if the taste of a Quaker [had] been consulted at the Creation, what a silent and drab-colored Creation it would have been! Not a flower would have blossomed its gaieties, nor a bird been permitted to sing."


(Tom Paine came from a Quaker Family in Norfolk)


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3 comments:

  1. ellie ClaytonNovember 23, 2010 at 8:15 PM

    This is and amusing and enlightening video about William Blake and Thomas Paine. There are five segments - excellent acting and real insight into the contrasting thinking of the two men.
    I can't paste the link here but you will find it on YouTube if you search for William Blake Thomas Paine.

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  2. Ray LovegroveNovember 23, 2010 at 9:19 PM

    Thanks Ellie I have found it at; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tikLELXGoWU

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  3. JosephNovember 23, 2010 at 11:45 PM

    He certainly didn't mince his words did he, old Mr Paine.

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