Show N THE REALM r e. e l OF LI liTERATURE IL II I inn is T TURE Selections e l. l F From rom Writings of ofT Tom om Paine By FRANK A. A HUNT Would like 1111 some wide awa awake e utho to w write ute a 1 history of ot through t the he ages The Tue late war Val demonstrated as never nevel e how this powerful influence ou au be used b b the war makers to tort Ita rt the 11 of ot one nation against no her almost overnight One daas day da dayas as as the song I r Did Not Raise liaise 1 B y to Be a Soldier and the tho x hymn of ot hate hale X T lf a as aR a whole today are areo o oved ed by an appeal to reason il ath aeh eh some lurting image peare pe- pe ore are ell eve ye eyes eyes' arouse their imag- imag Q a an and 1 l I beast awakes ow s t the phantom o 0 ng agada of course can be bet beIt It t good or evil The important h r n a 8 that thu it i be recognized to for I Iha ha t I II II- deliberate dt incitement award oward the course of ot action sug- sug est d by the propagandist la Tom ron Paine raine fully understood ul l 18 j C cagy ogy hr ht would have teen een een on f C r most famous propagandists orld corid but Paines Paine's appeal was waso sor 0 o Uio Ow reason leLSon than to the tho theno no is spite Despite this fact his lac mong mons the brave bave soldiers In tn Inh h r I of human liberalization Is IsI doubt and anel the thC revolution- revolution r dol doi or of nf this disturbed age Ut m his big writings of double InterS Inter'S inter- inter S 'S I ne e wa was one of the romantic gut 1 of tl thi th l' l eighteenth nth cen century ur as revolutionist and a re- re Igl deist Ills His famous S Sense lad had a pro pro- oun effect on the American Revo- Revo It t C 11 his attacks on rea reCa re- re Ca a religion which bore fruit Crull in tn r Age of oC Reason contributed ra 1 small CY 1 towards forcing a aJI JI cc for bold and free think think- 1 ig 1 Van Yan Doren has contributed a 1 alua to Ie introduction He lie says sas to which Paines Paine's doc doc- rifle are still potent has been later lat- lat er overlooked so many of his arts arts ar ar- ar- ar ts have come to seem axioms and theology For the Saxon Saxon proletariat however still the classic textbook of ofU ofa a U I thought I I vas as Paine who said Society i by bv our wants and gov- gov r merit b ls bour y our OUI wickedness the ther Irro r promote our happiness pos- pos I lent by uniting our affections the thet It t by bv restraining au our Ic fc The one encourages Inter Inter- ou se cc the other creates on en The first Is a patron thel the tho l pun her IU ty 1 pty In every ery state 1 s a blessig bless- bless II ig ut government even In Its best bestIs t ta js Is js but a t necessary evil In Its 0 state an in intolerable one for tor forve torI ve puffer or are exposed to toI I I me mi miseries by by a tL government b 11 Inch we might expect in a country government our calamity I Iut by reflecting that we the means by which wo we litre Government like dress Isae Isoe is oe ae ads I of lost Innocence IThe The Sf Selections are issued In a ahUe hUe eather bound book in the theM M Library seri series series Bon s-Boni s ad New York |