Common Sense

By Paine, Thomas

Book Id: WPLBN0000675596
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 553.94 KB.
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Common Sense
Author:	Paine, Thomas
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Introduction: Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.