Common Sense and Other Writings
Thomas Paine / Sep 27, 2020
Common Sense and Other Writings Introduction and Notes by Joyce ApplebyThough he didn t emigrate from England to the colonies until just a few months before the Revolutionary War began Thomas Paine had an enormous impact on t
Introduction and Notes by Joyce ApplebyThough he didn t emigrate from England to the colonies until 1774, just a few months before the Revolutionary War began, Thomas Paine had an enormous impact on that war the new nation that emerged from it Common Sense, the instantly popular pamphlet he published in January 1776, argued that the goal of the struggle against theIntroduction and Notes by Joyce ApplebyThough he didn t emigrate from England to the colonies until 1774, just a few months before the Revolutionary War began, Thomas Paine had an enormous impact on that war the new nation that emerged from it Common Sense, the instantly popular pamphlet he published in January 1776, argued that the goal of the struggle against the British should be not simply tax reform, as many were calling for, but complete independence His rousing, radical voice was balanced by the equally independence minded but measured tones of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence later that year In later works, such as The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, other selections included in this volume, he proved himself a visionary moralist centuries ahead of his time He believed that every human has the natural right to life s necessities that government s role should be to provide for those in dire need An impassioned opponent of all forms of slavery, he understood that no one in poverty is truly free a lesson still to be learned by many of our leaders today.
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an English American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary As the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain His ideas reflected Enlightenment era rhetoric of transnational human rights He has been called a corset maker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination.Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine emigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution His principal contributions were the powerful, widely read pamphlet Common Sense 1776 , the all time best selling American book that advocated colonial America s independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and The American Crisis 1776 83 , a pro revolutionary pamphlet series Common Sense was so influential that John Adams said, Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution He wrote the Rights of Man 1791 , in part a defence of the French Revolution against its critics His attacks on British writer Edmund Burke led to a trial and conviction in absentia in 1792 for the crime of seditious libel In 1792, despite not being able to speak French, he was elected to the French National Convention The Girondists regarded him as an ally Consequently, the Montagnards, especially Robespierre, regarded him as an enemy.In December 1793, he was arrested and imprisoned in Paris, then released in 1794 He became notorious because of his pamphlet The Age of Reason 1793 94 , in which he advocated deism, promoted reason and freethinking, and argued against institutionalized religion in general and Christian doctrine in particular He also wrote the pamphlet Agrarian Justice 1795 , discussing the origins of property, and introduced the concept of a guaranteed minimum income In 1802, he returned to America where he died on June 8, 1809 Only six people attended his funeral as he had been ostracized for his ridicule of Christianity.