Features
- Cover Type: Mass Market Paperback with 416 pages
- Published by: Signet Classics July 1, 2003
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0451528891
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0451528896
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Book Dimensions:
6.5 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 5.6 ounces
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Essential Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The Rights of Man (Paperback)
... Thomas Paine is one of our Nation's most misunderstood Founders. 'The Rights of Man,' contrary to public misunderstanding (usually by those who have not read it in it's entirety), bears out that Paine in fact *did* believe in a Divine entity, quoted directly from the Bible throughout the Essay, and had a near-encyclopedic understanding of the New Testament. His criticisms were of organized religion and how *men* had used it to corrupt the very idea of an afterlife and the ideas of faith. The publication of "Common Sense," most forget, was one of the most important causes of the American Revolution. Often derided even in his own time, Paine reminds us that those who speak ideas that cause painful debate are at the heart of our Nation's Ideals.
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