A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up by Thomas Paine
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arrangement of the thoughts, and not in the thoughts themselves.[3]
FOOTNOTE: [3] COMMON SENSE. ABBE RAYNAL. "Some writers have so confounded "Care must be taken not to confound society With government, as to leave together society with government. little or no distinction between them; That they may be known distinctly, whereas they are not only different, their origin should be considered. but have different origins. "Society is produced by our wants, "Society originates in the wants of and governments by our wickedness; men, government in their vices. the former promotes our happiness Society tends always to good; government _positively_, by uniting our affections; ought always to tend to the the latter _negatively_, by restraining repressing of evil." our vices." _In the following paragraphs there is less likeness in the language, but the ideas in the one are evidently copied from the other_. "In order to gain a clear and just "Man, thrown, as it were by idea of the design and end of government, chance upon the globe, surrounded let us suppose a small number by all the evils of nature, obliged of persons, meeting in some frequented continually to defend and protect his part of the earth, unconnected life against the storms and tempests with the rest; they will then represent of the air, against the inundations of the peopling of any country or water, against the fire of volcanoes, |
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