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The Age of Reason · Character

Cicero

Roman orator and philosopher referenced by Paine.

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First appearance: the age of reason

Cicero shows up with force in The Book of John. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Cited by Middleton as a pagan sage who articulated the universal law of right reason, conformable to the nature of things.
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