Author name: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. His pamphlets Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783) framed the Patriot argument for independence from Great Britain at the outset of the American Revolution. Paine advanced Enlightenment-era arguments for human rights that shaped revolutionary discourse on both sides of the Atlantic.

An Essay on Dream

Religion

A ESSAY on Dream. from the 1807 book Examinaton of the passages in the Hew Testament, printed by author in New York. The paragraphs edited from the 1803 Paris version have been added at the end. AS a great deal is said in the New Testament about dreams, it is first necessary to explain the […]

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The Existence of God

Religion

A DISCOURSE AT THE SOCIETY OF THEOPHILANTHROPISTS, PARIS Philip Foner’s introduction: One aim Paine had in mind in writing his Age of Reason was to recall the French people to a basic belief in the deity and thereby to overcome the influence of atheism. After the publication of his great work, Paine turned his attention

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What is Love?

Poetry

Images above from Copy of letter from the American Philosophical Society show a copy of a letter from Thomas Paine to Sir Robert Smith where Paine writes the poem, “What is Love?”. The following is a transcript of the poem. To Mrs. Robert Smyth WHAT IS LOVE? IT IS that delightsome transport we can feel

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