According to this excerpt descartes belief in the divine is represented through

Why is emerson’s essay “self-reliance” a great example of transcendentalism?

How can you paraphrase this, this is about golden age fallacies. these are all rational people who know that older is not necessarily better, but many are taken in by this fallacy and seem no longer able to reason with any degree of reliability

What point was thomas paine trying to make by relating this antidote