Life and Writings
of
Thomas Paine

Containing a biography by Thomas Clio Rickman
and appreciations by Leslie Stephen,
Lord Erskine, Paul Desjardins,
Robert G. Ingersoll,
Elbert Hubbard
and Marilla M. Ricker

Edited and annotated by

Daniel Edwin Wheeler

Vincent Parke and Company
New York

Copyright, 1908, by

Vincent Parke and Company.

The Independence Edition
of the
Writings of Thomas Paine
is limited to five hundred numbered copies,
of which this is

No. 244

Frontspiece

Drafting the Declaration of Independence
The Committee: Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Livingston and Sherman.
Photogravure from the Original Painting by Alonzo Chappel

Vol 2.

Common Sense

addressed to the

Inhabitants of America

man knows no master save creating heaven
Or those whom choice and common good ordain.

- Thompson

Contents

Explanatory Preface

Introduction

Common Sense

Of the Origin and Design of Government in General, etc.

Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession.

Thoughts on the present State of American Affairs.

Of the Present Ability of America, with Some Miscellaneous Reflections. 

Appendix

Epistle to Quakers

Miscellaneous Essays

African Slavery in America

A Dialogue Between General Wolfe and General Gage in a Wood near Boston

The Magazine in America

Useful and Entertaining Hints

New Anecdotes of Alexander the Great

Reflections on the Death on Lord Clive.

Cupid and Hymen

Duelling

Reflections on Titles

The Dream Interpreted

Reflections on Unhappy marriages

Thoughts on Defensive War

An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex.

A Serious Thought. 

The Forrester Letters

A Dialogue

Retreat Across the Delaware

Letter to Franklin in Paris

The Affair of Silas Deane.

Illustrations.

Drafting the Declaration of independence.        Frontispiece

Photogravure from the Original Painting by Alonzo Chappel.

The Boston Tea Party

Photogravure from an Original Painting

Liberty Bell

Photogravure from an Original Photograph of the Bell in independence Hall, Philadelphia.

Benjamin Franklin

Photogravure from the Original Painting in the State House at Boston