To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.
These were the books containing powerful Dark Magic never taught at Hogwarts, and only read by older students studying advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts.
To this day, some wizarding children are only told the revised version of the story by their (generally anti- Muggle) parents, and the original, if and when they ever read it, comes as a great surprise.
Well, one of the philosophers we read on this subject, Elizabeth Anderson, tries to give some—bring some philosophical clarity to the unease that Andrew articulated.
It was my good fortune to encounter Thomas Paine's works in my boyhood… Paine educated me, then, about many matters of which I had never before thought… .