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Paine could not publish part III of The Age of Reason in America until 1807 because of the deep antipathy against him.

Hailed only a few years earlier as a hero of the American Revolution, Paine was now lambasted in the press and called " the scavenger of faction ", a " lilly-livered sinical rogue ", a " loathsome reptile ", a " demi-human archbeast ", " an object of disgust, of abhorrence, of absolute loathing to every decent man except the President of the United States Jefferson ".

In October 1805 John Adams wrote to his friend Benjamin Waterhouse, an American physician and scientist: