Rights ofMan, Part I

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 hy the principles of the new. Manisnever a stranger tothe vvays by which l'rovidence régulâtes the order of tiiings. — C'est le moment où Thomas l'aine écrit son ouvrage à la fois déisle et anticlérical, The .\ge of Roason, being, nous dit le sous-titre, an investigation of true and fabulous theology. by Thomas Paine, seeretary for foreign alTairs to Congress in the American Avar, and autiior of the works entitled Coninion Sensé, and Rights of Man. Sui' les conditions dans lesquelles Paine écrivit cet ouvrage, v. Conway, Life of Paine, vol. 11, p. 197.

20. liighls of Man, Part II, chap. v : In contemplating the whole of this >ubjert, 1 extend my views into the dopartment of commerce. In ail my publications, where the matter would admit, 1 liave been an advocate for commerce, because 1 ani a frieiid to its elTects. It is a pacifie System, operaling to cordiidise mankind, by rendering nations, as Avell as individuals, useful to eacli othci'. As to the mère theoretical reformation, I hâve never preached it np. The most elfectual process is that of improving the condition of man by means of his intercst ; and it is on tiiis ground that I take

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iiiy sland. — 11 convient do noter que des idées semblables sont déjà exprimées à la lin de la conclusion de la première partie des liiç/lttH of Mail.