Note 13 — Chapter XX · EARLY FREETHOUGHT IN THE UNITED STATES
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So far as is known, Paine was the first writer to use the expression “the religion of Humanity.” See Conway’s Life of Paine, ii, 206. To Paine’s influence, too, appears to be due the founding of the first American Anti-Slavery Society. Id. i, 51–52, 60, 80, etc. ↑