TPUK 1981 Number 1 Volume 7

Spirit of Democracy

Thomas Paine and His Radical Contemporaries 

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1981 Number 1 Volume 7

Basically, like all the greatest writers on liberty, Paine was a humanitarian. Freedom, in Paine’s view, could not be dissociated from political morality, and he sounded a warning note which still carries a message.

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“Contrasted Opinions of Paine’s Pamphlet” is a 1791 intaglio by Frederick George Byron. Eight public figures are depicted reading excerpts from Rights of Man and reacting to them. Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Mary Wollstonecraft are the three supporters of Paine’s writings while the rest deplore them – American Philosophical Society

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, an English Tradition of Radical and the Dissent: The Cato Letters  

Thomas Paine Society UK, TPUK 1981 Number 1 Volume 7

The traditional way of looking at Paine as an Enlightenment political propagandist or as a Newtonian Deist is not explicit enough to distinguish him from others. Nor do these descriptions of Paine enable one to explain why Paine appeals to such a variety of radical, liberal and even conservative causes.

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