Original sentence: A tendency such as this flies in the face of higher reason and seems to mock transcendentalist thinking as outlined by "Common Sense".Also, one cannot ignore the contemporary Gothic themes of mechanism and automatism that rationalism leads to
Edited sentence: A tendency such as this flies in the face of higher reason and seems to mock transcendentalist thinking as outlined by "Common Sense (pamphlet)" and The Age of Reason.Also, one cannot ignore the contemporary Gothic themes of mechanism and automatism that rationalism and logic lead to