 | Europe - 1791 - 416 pages
...Ignorance is of a peculiar nature : once difpelled, and it is impoflible to re-eftabli!h it. It is not originally a. thing of itfelf, but is only the...and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be ;„•,/.•'• ignorant. The mind, in difcovering truth, a&s in the fame manner as it acts through... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1790 - 536 pages
...repair. Ignorance of a peculiar nature : once difpelled, and it is impoffible to reeftablifh it. It is not originally a thing of itfelf, but is only the abfence of knowlege ; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant. The mind, in difcovering... | |
 | Thomas Paine - France - 1791 - 358 pages
...repair. Ignorance of. a peculiar nature : once difpelled, and it is impoffible to reeftablifh it. It is not originally a thing of itfelf, but is only the abfence of knowlege ; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant. The mind, in difcovering... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Great Britain - 1795 - 180 pages
...Ignorance is of a peculiar nature — once difpelled, and it is impoffible to re-eftablifh it. It is not- originally a thing of itfelf, but is only the abfence of knowledge ; and, though man may be left ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant. The mind, in difcovering truth, afts in the fame manner... | |
 | France - 1811 - 662 pages
...Ignorance is of a peculiar nature : once difpelled, and it is impoffible to reeftablifli it. It is not originally a thing of itfelf, but is only the...be made ignorant. The mind, in difcovering truth, a<dts in the lame manner as it acts through the eye in difcovering objects; when once any object has... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1835 - 522 pages
...it is impossible to re-establish 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 mode ignorant. The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same man ner as it acts through the eye... | |
 | Thomas Brothers - History - 1840 - 618 pages
...it is impossible to re-establish 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." Well, for nearly half a century, the believers of this doctrine, and I among the rest, for a number... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...it is impossible to re-establish 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. The mind, in discovering Truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects ; when... | |
 | Thomas Paine - France - 1856 - 168 pages
...it is impossible to re-establish 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. The mind, in discovering truth, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects ; when... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1870 - 524 pages
...it is impossible to re-establish it. II 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. The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same man ner ns it acts through the eye in discovering an object ;... | |
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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. 
