The Collected Works of Thomas Paine E-Book

Thomas Paine

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• Sprache: Englisch
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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Writings of Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason • Common SenseThomas Paine • The Writings of Thomas Paine: The Rights of ManThomas Paine • The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete • The Writings of Thomas Paine: The American CrisisThomas Paine • Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire • THE AGE OF REASON • RIGHTS OF MAN. • THE AMERICAN CRISIS. • THE CRISIS • RIGHTS OF MAN. • OBSERVATIONS ON THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS • THE REPUBLICAN PROCLAMATION • TO THE AUTHORS OF "LE RÉPUBLICAIN." • TO THE ABBÉ SIÈYES • TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL • TO MR. SECRETARY DUNDAS • LETTERS TO ONSLOW CRANLEY • TO THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX, • TO MR. SECRETARY DUNDAS • LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ADDRESSERS ON THE LATE PROCLAMATION • ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE • ANTI-MONARCHAL ESSAY FOR THE USE OF NEW REPUBLICANS • TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, ON THE PROSECUTION AGAINST THE SECOND PART • ON THE PROPRIETY OF BRINGING LOUIS XVI. TO TRIAL • REASONS FOR PRESERVING THE LIFE OF LOUIS CAPET, • SHALL LOUIS XVI. HAVE RESPITE? • DECLARATION OF RIGHTS • PRIVATE LETTERS TO JEFFERSON • LETTER TO DANTON • A CITIZEN OF AMERICA TO THE CITIZENS OF EUROPE • APPEAL TO THE CONVENTION • THE MEMORIAL TO MONROE • LETTER TO GEORGE WASHINGTON • OBSERVATIONS • DISSERTATION ON FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT • THE CONSTITUTION OF • THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENGLISH SYSTEM OF FINANCE • FORGETFULNESS • AGRARIAN JUSTICE • THE AGE OF REASON •.etc.

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Table of Contents

COMMON SENSE

INTRODUCTION

OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION

OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY SUCCESSION

THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS

OF THE PRESENT ABILITY OF AMERICA, WITH SOME MISCELLANEOUS REFLECTIONS

APPENDIX

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE VOLUME I.

COLLECTED AND EDITED BY MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY

1774 - 1779

THE AMERICAN CRISIS.

EDITOR'S PREFACE.

THE CRISIS

THE CRISIS I. (THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS)

THE CRISIS II. TO LORD HOWE.

THE CRISIS III. (IN THE PROGRESS OF POLITICS)

THE CRISIS IV. (THOSE WHO EXPECT TO REAP THE BLESSINGS OF FREEDOM)

THE CRISIS. V. TO GEN. SIR WILLIAM HOWE.

THE CRISIS VI. (TO THE EARL OF CARLISLE AND GENERAL CLINTON)

THE CRISIS VII. TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

THE CRISIS VIII. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

THE CRISIS IX. (HAD AMERICA PURSUED HER ADVANTAGES)

THE CRISIS X. ON THE KING OF ENGLAND'S SPEECH.

THE CRISIS. XI. ON THE PRESENT STATE OF NEWS.

THE CRISIS. XII. TO THE EARL OF SHELBURNE.

THE CRISIS. XIII. THOUGHTS ON THE PEACE, AND PROBABLE ADVANTAGES

A SUPERNUMERARY CRISIS: TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE VOLUME II.

By Thomas Paine

Collected And Edited By Moncure Daniel Conway

1779 - 1792

XIII. RIGHTS OF MAN.

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.

RIGHTS OF MAN

Being An Answer To Mr. Burke's Attack On The French Revoloution

PAINE'S PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION

PAINE'S PREFACE TO THE FRENCH EDITION

RIGHTS OF MAN. PART THE FIRST BEING AN ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

OBSERVATIONS ON THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

RIGHTS OF MAN. PART SECOND, COMBINING PRINCIPLE AND PRACTICE.

By Thomas Paine.

FRENCH TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

(1792)

PREFACE

RIGHTS OF MAN PART II.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I. OF SOCIETY AND CIVILISATION

CHAPTER II. OF THE ORIGIN OF THE PRESENT OLD GOVERNMENTS

CHAPTER III. OF THE OLD AND NEW SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER IV. OF CONSTITUTIONS

CHAPTER V. WAYS AND MEANS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF EUROPE

INTERSPERSED WITH MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS

APPENDIX

THE AUTHOR'S NOTES FOR PART ONE AND PART TWO

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE

By Thomas Paine

Edited By Moncure Daniel Conway

VOLUME III.

1791-1804

G. P. Putnam's Sons New York London Copyright, 1895 By G. P. Putnam's Sons

INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD VOLUME.

WITH HISTORICAL NOTES AND DOCUMENTS.

I. THE REPUBLICAN PROCLAMATION.(1)

"Brethren and Fellow Citizens:

II. TO THE AUTHORS OF "LE RÉPUBLICAIN."(1)

III. TO THE ABBÉ SIÈYES.(1)

Paris, 8th July, 1791.

IV. TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

V. TO MR. SECRETARY DUNDAS.(1)

VI. LETTERS TO ONSLOW CRANLEY,

VII. TO THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY OF SUSSEX,

VIII. TO MR. SECRETARY DUNDAS.

Calais, Sept. 15, 1792.

IX. LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ADDRESSERS ON THE LATE PROCLAMATION.(1)

X. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE.

XI. ANTI-MONARCHAL ESSAY. FOR THE USE OF NEW REPUBLICANS.(1)

XII. TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, ON THE PROSECUTION AGAINST THE SECOND PART

XIII. ON THE PROPRIETY OF BRINGING LOUIS XVI. TO TRIAL.(1)

Read to the Convention, November 21, 1792.

XIV. REASONS FOR PRESERVING THE LIFE OF LOUIS CAPET,

As Delivered to the National Convention, January 15, 1703.(1)

XV. SHALL LOUIS XVI. HAVE RESPITE?

SPEECH IN THE CONVENTION, JANUARY 19, 1793.(1)

XVI. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS.(1)

XVII. PRIVATE LETTERS TO JEFFERSON.

XVIII. LETTER TO DANTON.(1)

Paris, May 6, 2nd year of the Republic [1793.]

XIX. A CITIZEN OF AMERICA TO THE CITIZENS OF EUROPE (1)

XX. APPEAL TO THE CONVENTION.(1)

XXI. THE MEMORIAL TO MONROE.

EDITOR'S historical introduction:

XXII. LETTER TO GEORGE WASHINGTON.

Paris, July 30, 1796.

XXIII. OBSERVATIONS.(1)

XXIV. DISSERTATION ON FIRST PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT. (1)

XXV. THE CONSTITUTION OF 1795.

XXVI. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENGLISH SYSTEM OF FINANCE.(1)

XXVII. FORGETFULNESS.(1)

XXVIII. AGRARIAN JUSTICE.

Editor's introduction:

XXIX. THE EIGHTEENTH FRUCTIDOR.

XXX. THE RECALL OF MONROE. (1)

XXXI. PRIVATE LETTER TO PRESIDENT JEFFERSON.

XXXII. PROPOSAL THAT LOUISIANA BE PURCHASED.(1)

XXXIII. THOMAS PAINE TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES,

XXXIV. TO THE FRENCH INHABITANTS OF LOUISIANA.(1)

THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS PAINE

THE AGE OF REASON - PART I and II

By Thomas Paine

Collected And Edited By Moncure Daniel Conway

VOLUME IV.

(1796)

THE AGE OF REASON

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION

WITH SOME RESULTS OF RECENT RESEARCHES.

CHAPTER I - THE AUTHOR'S PROFESSION OF FAITH.

CHAPTER II - OF MISSIONS AND REVELATIONS.

CHAPTER III - CONCERNING THE CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST, AND HIS HISTORY.

CHAPTER IV - OF THE BASES OF CHRISTIANITY.

CHAPTER V - EXAMINATION IN DETAIL OF THE PRECEDING BASES.

CHAPTER VI - OF THE TRUE THEOLOGY.

CHAPTER VII - EXAMINATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.

CHAPTER VIII - OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.

CHAPTER IX - IN WHAT THE TRUE REVELATION CONSISTS.

CHAPTER X - CONCERNING GOD, AND THE LIGHTS CAST ON HIS EXISTENCE

AND ATTRIBUTES BY THE BIBLE.

CHAPTER XI - OF THE THEOLOGY OF THE CHRISTIANS; AND THE TRUE THEOLOGY.

CHAPTER XII - THE EFFECTS OF CHRISTIANISM ON EDUCATION; PROPOSED

CHAPTER XIII - COMPARISON OF CHRISTIANISM WITH THE RELIGIOUS IDEAS

CHAPTER XIV - SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE.

CHAPTER XV - ADVANTAGES OF THE EXISTENCE OF MANY WORLDS IN EACH SOLAR

CHAPTER XVI - APPLICATION OF THE PRECEDING TO THE SYSTEM OF THE

CHAPTER XVII - OF THE MEANS EMPLOYED IN ALL TIME, AND ALMOST

THE AGE OF REASON - PART II

PREFACE

CHAPTER I - THE OLD TESTAMENT

CHAPTER II - THE NEW TESTAMENT

CHAPTER III - CONCLUSION

A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ABBE RAYNAL,

ON THE

AFFAIRS OF NORTH AMERICA;

IN WHICH THE MISTAKES IN THE ABBE's ACCOUNT OF THEREVOLUTION of AMREICA [sic] ARE CORRECTED AND CLEARED UP.

BY THOMAS PAINE,

SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO CONGRESS, DURING THE AMERICAN WAR, AND AUTHOR OF COMMON SENSE, AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. RIDGEWAY, NO. 1, YORK-STREET, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE. M,DCC,XII. [sic, actually 1792]

INTRODUCTION

FOOTNOTE:

A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ABBE RAYNAL

FOOTNOTE:

FOOTNOTE:

POSTSCRIPT

First Edition

COMMON SENSE

INTRODUCTION

Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his OWN RIGHT, to support the Parliament in what he calls THEIRS, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either.

In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious, or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains are bestowed upon their conversion.

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR.

P.S. The Publication of this new Edition hath been delayed, with a View of taking notice (had it been necessary) of any Attempt to refute the Doctrine of Independance: As no Answer hath yet appeared, it is now presumed that none will, the Time needful for getting such a Performance ready for the Public being considerably past.

Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the DOCTRINE ITSELF, not the MAN. Yet it may not be unnecessary to say, That he is unconnected with any Party, and under no sort of Influence public or private, but the influence of reason and principle.

Philadelphia, February 14, 1776

OF THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, WITH CONCISE REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. WHEREFORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows, that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest, they will then represent the first peopling of any country, or of the world. In this state of natural liberty, society will be their first thought. A thousand motives will excite them thereto, the strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same. Four or five united would be able to raise a tolerable dwelling in the midst of a wilderness, but one man might labour out of the common period of life without accomplishing any thing; when he had felled his timber he could not remove it, nor erect it after it was removed; hunger in the mean time would urge him from his work, and every different want call him a different way. Disease, nay even misfortune would be death, for though neither might be mortal, yet either would disable him from living, and reduce him to a state in which he might rather be said to perish than to die.

Thus necessity, like a gravitating power, would soon form our newly arrived emigrants into society, the reciprocal blessings of which, would supersede, and render the obligations of law and government unnecessary while they remained perfectly just to each other; but as nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice, it will unavoidably happen, that in proportion as they surmount the first difficulties of emigration, which bound them together in a common cause, they will begin to relax in their duty and attachment to each other; and this remissness will point out the necessity of establishing some form of government to supply the defect of moral virtue.

Some convenient tree will afford them a State-House, under the branches of which, the whole colony may assemble to deliberate on public matters. It is more than probable that their first laws will have the title only of REGULATIONS, and be enforced by no other penalty than public disesteem. In this first parliament every man, by natural right, will have a seat.