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Selected and Introduced<\/strong> for Short Work<\/a><\/em> by Alex Steffen<\/a>, editor of Worldchanging<\/a><\/p>\n

Bombarded as we are with advertising and propaganda looking to link products or candidates to the concept of freedom, we tend to lose sight of how radical a set of ideas democracy, personal liberty and human rights really are, and how recently, really, the fight to make them the universal rule began. The best antidote to that forgetfulness is Common Sense<\/em>, the book that, in a very real sense, can be credited with raising the American public will to revolution. It was a radical and deep document then. It is still radical today. Would that we had more writers with Paine’s passion, skill and clarity today.<\/p>\n

Alex Steffen<\/a>
\nApril 2008<\/p>\n

Thomas Paine<\/a>\u00a0(1737-1809). Englishman by birth. American by choice. French by decree. Citizen of the World.<\/p>\n

First Published in Philadelphia 1776
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