(This volume appears to have been published pseudonymously. Advertised in Lancaster, Pa., Intelligencer and Advertiser, October, 1800); (16) Boudinot, Elias, _The Age of Revelation, Or, The Age of Reason shewn to be an Age of Infidelity_, Philadelphia, 1801. [167] _Cf._ Morse, _The Federalist Party in Massachusetts_, Appendix I, pp. 217 _et seq._, for a detailed and fairly satisfactory statement of the character and extent of the discussion which Paine’s book precipitated in New England. [168] Channing, _Memoirs_, vol. i, pp. 60, 61. On the latter page it is asserted that in order to counteract such fatal principles as those expressed in the _Age of Reason_, the patrons and governors of Harvard College had Watson’s _Apology for the Bible_ published and furnished to the students at the expense of the corporation. This was in 1796. Beecher’s _Autobiography, Correspondence, etc._, vol. i, pp. 30, 35, 52, touches upon the situation at Yale. _Cf._ Dwight, _Theology: Explained and Defended_, vol. i, pp. xxv, xxvi. The extensive prevalence of infidelity among Yale students is commented upon and the statement made that a considerable proportion of the class which President Dwight first taught (1795–96) “had assumed the names of principal English and French Infidels; and were more familiarly known by them than by their own.” (_Ibid._) _Cf._ Dorchester, _Christianity in the United States_, p. 319. [169] The impression lingered on after the stir caused by the appearance of the _Age of Reason_. In 1803 Paine was in southern New England. His presence was disturbing, as the following comment of William Bentley will show: “Reports are circulated that Thomas Paine intends to visit New England. The name is enough. Every person has ideas of him. Some respect his genius and dread the man. Some reverence his political, while they hate his religious, opinions. Some love the man, but not his private manners. Indeed he has done nothing which has not extremes in it. He never appears but we love and hate him. He is as great a paradox as ever appeared in human nature.” (_Diary_, vol. iii. p. 37. _Cf. ibid._, vol. ii. pp. 102, 107, 145.) [170] Hazen, _Contemporary American Opinion of the French Revolution_, pp. 141 _et seq._ [171] _Ibid._, p. 143. [172] Dwight, _Travels_, vol. iv, p. 361. [173] _Writings of Thomas Jefferson_, vol. v, pp. 154, 274; _Massachusetts Historical Collections, Sixth Series_, vol. iv, _Belknap Papers_, p. 503. [174] The entire episode is treated with great fullness and equal vividness by Hazen, _Contemporary American Opinion of the French Revolution_, pp. 164–188. [175] _Writings of Thomas Jefferson_, vol. vi, pp. 153 _et seq._