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Though he did not emigrate from England to the American

colonies until 1774, just a few months before the Revolutionary War

began, Thomas Paine had an enormous impact on that war and

the new nation that emerged from it. Common Sense, the

instantly popular pamphlet he published in January 1776, argued

that the goal of the struggle against the British should be not

simply tax reform, as many were calling for, but complete

independence. His rousing, radical voice was balanced by the

equally independence-minded but more measured tones of Thomas

Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence later that

year.

In later works, such as The Rights of Man, The Age of

Reason, and other selections included in this volume, Paine

proved himself a visionary moralist centuries ahead of his time. He

believed that every human has the natural right to life’s

necessities and that government’s role should be to provide for

those in dire need. An impassioned opponent of all forms of

slavery, he understood that no one in poverty is truly free, a

lesson still to be learned by many of our leaders today.

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About the Author

Thomas Paine was born in Norfolk, England, on January 29,

1737. He received a basic education in history, mathematics, and

science, but left school at age 13 to apprentice in his father's

corsetmaking shop. In 1757, he spent time at sea aboard the

privateer ship King of Prussia, and later found employment as a

journeyman staymaker in London. All the while, Paine continued to

study on his own, influenced by the work of two leading figures of

the Enlightenment, Isaac Newton and John Locke. He began writing

political pamphlets, and at the urging of Benjamin Franklin,

emigrated to Philadelphia in 1774 to work as an editor for The

Pennsylvania Magazine. In 1776, he published Common Sense, which

called for America's political freedom from England. The pamphlet

sold more than 150,000 copies in three months. Paine next published

The American Crisis during the Revolutionary War, inspiring George

Washington to read it to his troops at Valley Forge. By the end of

the Revolution, however, Paine's influence had run its course, and

he fell out of political favor. He returned to Europe, where he

published his treatise Rights of Man, which led to his arrest on

charges of high treason. Disillusioned with life abroad, he

returned to the U.S. to find himself vilifed as an agitator and

atheist. He died in obscurity in New York City in 1809. 

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