Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking because he is unknown to the average citizen. I might say that this is a national loss and a deplorable lack of understanding concerning the man who first proposed those impressive words, ‘the United States of America.’
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The progress of science and invention in which Paine was so deeply interested has not of itself brought social peace or justice. We have got rid of chattel slavery against which he preached, but not of slavery to a profit mad economic system which he could not foresee.
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Paine was the real founder of the so-called Liberal Denominations, and their business has not been to become great, powerful and popular, but to make all other denominations more liberal. So today in all so-called orthodox pulpits one can hear the ideas of Paine.
by Elbert Hubbard The following was written for TPNHA in 1907 and updated in 1915. Some of the claims in the essay are incorrect, but it still stands up as an historic document. I Thomas Paine was the greatest writer of his day. He was one of the foremost patriots of his time, and America
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from an Appendix in Life of Thomas Paine by Conway At the age of thirty Paine was somewhat stout, and very athletic; but after his arrival in America (1774) he was rather slender. His height was five feet, nine inches. He had a prominent nose, somewhat like that of Ralph Waldo Emerson. It may have
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"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, is like administering medicine to the dead." — THOMAS PAINE. PEORIA, October 8, 1877. To the Editor of the N.Y. Observer: SIR: Last June in San Francisco, I offered a thousand dollars in gold — not as a wager, but as
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In Memory of Thomas Paine by Walt Whitman Spoken at Lincoln Hall, Philadelphia, Sunday, Jan. 28, 1877, for 140th anniversary of T. P.’s birth-day. SOME thirty-five years ago, in New York city, at Tammany hall, of which place I was then a frequenter, I happen’d to become quite well acquainted with Thomas Paine’s perhaps most
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To the Editor of SCRIBNER’S MONTHLY: SIR: The extensive circulation of SCRIBNER’S MONTHLY may, I hope, be sufficient reason for your allowing me to correct a statement in your columns which is likely to produce a false impression. The statement for which I complain is in the following sentence, at page 32 of the number
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PEORIA, Nov. 2nd, 1877. To the Editor of the New York Observer: You ought to have honesty enough to admit that you did, in your paper of July 19th, offer to prove that the absurd story that Thomas Paine died in terror and agony on account of the religious opinions he had expressed, was true.
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Life and Deeds of Thomas Paine LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Through all the centuries gone, the mind of man has been beleaguered by the mailed hosts of superstition. Slowly and painfully has advanced the army of deliverance. Hated by those they wished to rescue, despised by those they were dying to save, these grand soldiers, the
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Compiled by Joseph N. Moreau Boston: J. P. Mendum 1874 To the Rev. M.D. Conway, of Cincinnati, Ohio, the first clergyman who has had the moral courage to champion in the pulpit the cause of one whose fair name, though now defamed, shall one day deservedly shine forth as the brightest star in the American
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Sonnet To Thomas Paine, the author of The Rights of Man by T. Clio Rickman. Hail Genius! of Truth, and Life, and Light, The purest wisdom marks thy manly page; `Tis thine to purge from filth the mental site, `Tis thine to renovate and bless the age. To valued naught but what is truly great,
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