As he claims, the entirety of these ideas cannot fit into the new rationality which has exposed the scientific basis behind conception and the circulatory system, the system that carries within it the air and nutrients of life. ... In an interesting twist on Paine's argument utilizing Aristotle's ideal on poetics, Paine claims that the imagery in the books supposedly written by Prophets is actually poetry. It meets all of the requirements, including being fictitious, extravagant and not fitting within any other category of form than poetry. ... However, he says, the book does not cla...

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