THE APOSTLE OF LIBERTY
Reading edition
An Address Delivered In Chicago, January 29, 1916.
INCLUDING THE TESTIMONY OF FIVE HUNDRED WITNESSES.
By John E. Remsburg
President Of American Secular Union
"This effort to right the wrongs of Thomas Paine is, in my opinion, a service to mankind."—Andrew D. White, LL.D., First President of Cornell University, Minister to Russia, and Ambassador to Germany.
1917
IN MEMORY OF THOMAS "CLIO" RICKMAN, WILLIAM COBBETT, GILBERT VALE, HORACE SEAVER, ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, MONCURE D. CONWAY, THADDEUS B. WAKEMAN and EUGENE M. MACDONALD, noble defenders while living of the much maligned dead, this appreciation of our nation's founder and the world's greatest apostle of liberty is reverently inscribed.
CONTENTS
THOMAS PAINE, THE APOSTLE OF LIBERTY.
"COMMON SENSE" AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
THE "RIGHTS OF MAN" AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
"AGE OF REASON" AND RECANTATION CALUMNY.
PAINE'S PLACE IN LITERATURE.
REFORMS AND INVENTIONS.
TESTIMONIALS AND TRIBUTES.