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Thomas Paine by George Romney
THE COMPLETE WRITINGS OF
THOMAS PAINE
COLLECTED AND EDITED BY
PHILIP S. FONER,
PH.D.
WITH A
BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY, AND NOTES AND INTRODUCTIONS
PRESENTING THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF PAINE'S WRITINGS
COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES
THE CITADEL PRESS • NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, I945, BY THE CITADEL PRESS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY
THE
VAIL
BALLOU PRESS,
INC.,
B I N G H A M T O N , N. Y.
and left their imprint on democratic thought all over the world.
These volumes represent an attempt to make these writings available
to both the general reader and the student. Every effort has been made
to include all of Paine's writings available at present, and to present
them in a manner that would make clear their historical background.
Emphasis has been placed throughout on presenting Paine's writings
in their essential clarity, and for this purpose efforts have been made,
without in any sense distorting Paine's meaning, to modernize the spell-
ing, capitalization and punctuation wherever it was necessary to make
the meaning clear to a present day reader.
Volume One contains Paine's major works:
Common Sense, The
American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason,
and
Agrarian
Justice.
In Volume Two will be found his other political and economic
essays, theological dissertations, scientific papers and political and per-
sonal correspondence. Much of the material found in the second volume
has never been included in any previous collection of Paine's writings.
In the preparation of these volumes I have had the generous assistance
and cooperation of the libraries and personnel of the Library of Congress,
the New York Public Library, the New York Historical Society, the
American Philosophical Society, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
the Library Company of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Li-
brary, the William L. Clements Library of the University of Michigan,
the American Antiquarian Society, Harvard University Library, the
Henry E. Huntington Library, the John Carter Brown Library of Brown
University, the Wisconsin State Historical Society, the National Ar-
chives, the Boston Public Library, Yale University Library, and the
Thomas Paine National Historical Association. Without their aid it
would have been impossible to present this material to the public.
PHILIP S. FONER
PREFACE
T
HE writings of Thomas Paine helped shape the American nation
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