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Historian Paul Israel has characterized Edison as a " freethinker ".
Edison was heavily influenced by Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason.
Edison defended Paine's " scientific deism ", saying, " He has been called an atheist, but atheist he was not.
Paine believed in a supreme intelligence, as representing the idea which other men often express by the name of deity.
" In an October 2, 1910, interview in the New York Times Magazine, Edison stated:
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