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Despite the outpouring of antagonistic replies to The Age of Reason, some scholars have argued that Constantin Volney's deistic The Ruins ( translations of excerpts from the French original appeared in radical papers such as Thomas Spence's Pig's Meat and Daniel Isaac Eaton's Politics for the People ) was actually more influential than The Age of Reason.
According to David Bindman, The Ruins " achieved a popularity in England comparable to Rights of Man itself ".
However, one minister complained that " the mischief arising from the spreading of such a pernicious publication The Age of Reason was infinitely greater than any that could spring from limited suffrage and septennial parliaments " ( other popular reform causes ).

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