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19. V. la lettre de remerciements adressée par Paine en sept. 1792 à ses électeurs de Calais. Moncure Daniel Conway, the Life of Thomas Paine, vol. I, p. 356 : An over-ruling Providence is regenerating the old world by the principles of the new. Man isnever a stranger tothe ways by which Providence régulâtes the order of things. — C'est le moment où Thomas Paine écrit son ouvrage à la fois déiste et anticlérical, The Age of Reason, being, nous dit le sous-titre, an investigation of true and fabulous theology, by Thomas Paine, secretary for foreign affairs to Congress in the American war, and author of the works entitled Comrnon Sensé, and Bights of Man. Sur les conditions dans lesquelles Paine écrivit cet ouvrage, v. Conway, Life of Paine, vol. II, p. 197.

20. R'ujhts of Man, Part 11, chap. v : In contempla ting the whole of this subject, 1 extend my views into the department of commerce. In ail my publications, where the matter would adroit, 1 hâve been an advocate for commerce, because l a m a friend to its effects. It is a paciûc System, opérating to cordialise mankind, by rendering nations, as well as individuals, useful to each other. As to the mère theoretical reformation, I hâve never preached it up. The most elTectual process is that of improving the condition of man by means of lus interest ; and it is on this ground that I take

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my sland. — 11 convient de noter que des idées semblables sont déjà exprimées à la fin de la conclusion de la première partie des Rights of Man.