The End of Enlightenment by Richard Whatmore

Author:Richard Whatmore [Whatmore, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241523438
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
Published: 2021-10-28T00:00:00+00:00

Just as in the pamphlet Common Sense, which had made him famous as the leading advocate of an American republic, Paine described the new America as a moral community to be contrasted with a corrupt and collapsing Britain. Washington’s war was being carried on by devout patriots who could be relied upon to create a better world. Europe, and Britain more especially, was suffering the end of enlightenment. Paine was in the vanguard of those who believed that this was taking place because of the institutions, cultures and social and religious practices of the old world. North America, lacking such diseased limbs, could be relied upon to do things differently in perpetuity. Paine saw himself as a crusader, battling against infidels with the zeal of the first Protestants. Although he never lost his faith in a moralized politics within a republican community, Paine changed his mind about the foundations of such a community and its nature, just as his personality ill-fitted the communities he found himself within, illustrated by his little-lamented death and the undignified journey of his human remains afterwards.

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