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Tom Paine : Age of Reason
Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 18 Jul 1844: 'Found that a prisoner committed yesterday was an avowed infidel who had read attentively Paine's "Age of Reason". Conversed with him for some time, and then lent him Bishop Watson's "Apology for the Bible". I felt thankful that under the present system of discipline such characters can no longer spread their pernicious opinions amongst the other prisoners.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: H.C. Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible
Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 23 Feb 1845: 'The prisoner (H.C.) who avowed his infidelity when first committed (July 18) was discharged this morning. I don't presume to question but that the punishment of this criminal was proportioned to his offence, yet I very much regret that his imprisonment was for so short a time. In the last conversation I had with him he acknowledged that many of his doubts had been removed; that although he could not understand parts of the Old Testament, yet he was convinced of the truth of the New Testament, and his conviction was attended with such a sense of his own guilt, and such apparent sorrow, that I wish his confinement had been long enough for the good feelings he expressed to ripen into stedfast resolutions of amendment.'
