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Pol. Just., Book VIT, chap. 1, sqq

47. Pol. Just., Book V, chap. xxrv (2e éd., vol. IT, p. 205).

48. Pol. Just., Book VII, chap. v (2e éd., vol. Il, pp. 362 sqq.). — Book VIII, chap. 1 (2 éd., vol. IL, p. #13).

49. V. Moncure Daniel Conway, Life of Paine, vol. I, p. 369: ext de la « letter to the addressers ». [t is a dangerous To in any government Lo say to a Nation, Thou shalt not read. — Thought, by some means or other, is got abroad in the world, and cannot be restrained, though reading may. — Et Pol. Just., Book IV, chap. x, sect. IIl : These are the expedients of men who do not know that truth is omnipotent. It may appear to die for a time, but it will not fail to revive with fresh vigour. If it have ever failed to produce gradual conviction, it is because it has been told in a meagre, an obscure or a pusillanimous manner. Ten pages that should contain an absolute demonstration of the true interests of mankind in society could no otherwise be prevented from changing the face of the globe, than by the literal destruction of the paper on which they were written.

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