visited the Temple of Learning "that the whole tribe who entered into the temple with me, began to climb the throne; but the work proving troublesome and difficult most of them, they withdrew their hands from the plow, and concentrated themselves to sit at the foot, with madam idleness and her maid ignorance." He basically says that most people are too lazy to learn therefore they are ignorant and stay at the bottom. Ben also wanted the common people to go to the Temple of Theology, he says "blind to their children's dullness, and insensible of the solidity of their skulls, because they think their purses can afford it." Rich people are the only ones who can afford an education and a lot of the parents think money can buy intelligence. This Age brought many thinkers to see that society is corrupt. People like Crevecoeur and Thomas Paine made people see that slavery is wrong. De Crevecoeur writes that "are not these blacks thy children as well as we?" we are all made by God, we should treat everybody as equally as each other. People were being hypocrites to their own religionin Thomas Paine's Common Sense. "desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men by violence and murder for gain, is rather lamentable than strange. But that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve,m and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist". America fought so hard to get freedom and here these "Christian" people own other people, use them for labor, treating them cruelly, and society accepts it! This is not very Christian like or American like, which makes them hypocrites. All these men could think and see what is wrong with society. They use moral conscience to persuade people because they know that moral conscience is built on shame. I can conclude from my studies if society is conscious, it is learned from people who were morally conscious at heart. People can learn to be morally conscience b...
