Thomas Paine (Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans)

From the Preface: Thomas Paine has been abhorred as a revolutionist and execrated as a heretic. Politics and religion have bred the best haters among men. He lived during the mightiest events of modern history, at a time when no public man was safe from the bitterest assaults of rancor and of malice; but not one of his contemporaries has been slandered more relentlessly than he. He attached all who differed from him in the two most sensitive spots in human nature, and richly has he paid the penalty.

The purpose of this small volume is to tell the story of Thomas Paine without bias and without argument. It is difficult, indeed, to write of Paine without enthusiasm for his genius and a lively recognition of his great services to liberty. But his faults are set down frankly. The reader shall be judge and jury.

This is a public domain work, part of a book collection called the "Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans." Many editions you will find are unedited OCR versions that contain frequent errors, no formatting (like bold or italicized text) and large gaps where one page ends and the next begins. This version has been restored.

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