(1870.)
With his Name left out the History of Liberty cannot be Written--Paine's
Origin and Condition--His arrival in America with a Letter of
Introduction by Franklin--Condition of the Colonies--"Common Sense"--A
new Nation Born--Paine the Best of Political Writers--The "Crisis"--War
not to the Interest of a trading Nation--Paine's Standing at the Close
of the Revolution--Close of the Eighteenth Century in France-The
"Rights of Man"--Paine Prosecuted in England--"The World is my
Country"--Elected to the French Assembly--Votes against the Death of
the King--Imprisoned--A look behind the Altar--The "Age of Reason"--His
Argument against the Bible as a Revelation--Christianity of Paine's
Day--A Blasphemy Law in Force in Maryland--The Scotch "Kirk"--Hanging
of Thomas Aikenhead for Denying the Inspiration of the
Scriptures--"Cathedrals and Domes, and Chimes and Chants"--Science--"He
Died in the Land his Genius Defended,"