Ignorance is of a peculiar nature once dispelled it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself but is only the absence of knowledge and though man may be kept ignorant he...

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature once dispelled it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself but is only the absence of knowledge and though man may be kept ignorant he cannot be made ignorant.
Thomas Paine

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That there are men in all countries who get their living by war and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
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That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
- Thomas Paine

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature once dispelled it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself but is only the absence of knowledge and though man may be kept ignorant he cannot be made ignorant. Thomas Paine

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature once dispelled it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself but is only the absence of knowledge and though man may be kept ignorant he cannot be made ignorant.
Thomas Paine