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Bulletin of Thomas Paine Friends © 2000-2018 Thomas Paine Friends, Inc BULLETIN OF THOMAS PAINE FRIENDS © 2000-2018 THOMAS PAINE FRIENDS, INC. T"OLUM E 18 NUMBER 4 JANUARY 2018 FROM AGRARIAN JUSTICE 1797 (In: The Life and Works of Thomas Paine, ed. William Van der Weyde, 1925, X, 1-37, New Rochelle NY: Thomas Paine National Historical Society) This work was initially intended for the French, although it was published in English in both France and England at the same time. Editor Van der Weyde's commentary is a useful preliminary to Paine's text. This tract, as Paine calls it, is identified with the Theophilanthropic movement which Paine started in Paris, in 1786-7, and later introduced in America. It is important as being a precursorof the f ingle tax movement, popularized by Henry George, in his "Progress and Poverty, " a century later. Paine issued this pamphlet as a proposal to the French Government, at a time when readjustment of landed property had become necessary through the Revolution. It was suggested to him by a sermon published by the Bishop of Llandaff on "The Wisdom and Goodness of God in having made both rich and poor." Paine denies that God made rich and poor, declaring "He made only male andfemale, and gave them the earth for their inheritance." ---Excerpts, from diverse parts ofAf--- "It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its "Various methods may be proposed for this purpose [creating natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to The National Fund for the payments] but that which appears to be be, the common property of the human race. In that state every the best... .is at the moment that property is passing by the death man would have been born to property.. as it is impossible to of one person to the possession of another. In this case, the separate the improvement made by cultivation from the earth bequeather gives nothing; the receiver pays nothing. The only itself, upon which that improvement is made, the idea of landed matter to him is that the monopoly of natural inheritance, to which property arose... .but it is nevertheless true, that it is the value of there never was a right, begins to cease in his person.....[Paine the improvement, only, and not the earth itself, that is individual gives detailed calculations to arrive at a 10% "inheritance or property. wealth tax"] "Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the "The plan here proposed will reach the whole. It will community a ground-rent (for I know of no better term to express immediately relieve.. .three classes of wretchedness---the blind, the idea) for the land which he holds; and it is from this ground- the lame, and the aged poor; and it will furnish the rising rent that the fund proposed in this plan is to issue...... generation with means to prevent their becoming poor..... "In advocating the case of the persons thus dispossessed, it is a "The superstitious awe, the enslaving reverence, that formerly right, and not a charity, that I am pleading for...... surrounded affluence, is passing away in all countries, and leaving "I shall now proceed to the plan I have to propose, which is: the possessor of property to the convulsions of accidents. When To create a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every wealth and splendor, instead of fascinating the multitude, excite person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of emotions of disgust; when, instead of drawing forth admiration, it fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of is beheld as an insult upon wretchedness; when the ostentatious his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of appearance it makes serves to call the right of it into question, the landed property: And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum, case of property becomes critical, and it is only in a system of during life, to every person now living, of the age of fifty years, justice that the possessor can contemplate security...... and to all others as they shall arrive at that age...... ---Selections by Martha Spiegelman . . . :'.. IN THIS ISSUE . From Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine 1 Thomas Paine in Opera reviewed by Mariam Touba 4 Acknowledgments and Announcements . 2 Howard Zinn on Thomas Paine by Irwin Spiegelman 5 President's Message 3, Thomas Paine Birthday Celebrations 6 TPF Committees Formed 3 The Democratic Peace Theory from Sid Moss 6 A Few Short Reports 7,8 thomas-paine-friends.org / Bulletin of Thomas Paine Friends, vol. 18, no.4, January 2018 1 Thomas Paine Friends, Inc., gratefully acknowledges recent dues and generous donations from Daniel C. Bacon, Edward Brown, Joyce Chumbley, Roger Conant, Gae Delcampo and William Pinschmidt, Edward J. Dodson, Monica Durkan, David Harding, Jerome Hurwitz, J. Arthur Lenzi, Robert Meeropol Ronald Milberg, Paul Moss, Christiane Munkholm, Tom Neilson, Robert Oliver, Richard Robyn, John F. 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Contact: spiegelmanmarthagmail.com 2 Bulletin of Thomas Paine Friends, vol. 18, no.4, January 2018 thomas-paine-friends.org President's Message What might Thomas Paine think of the world of today? of what Paine has to contribute to the grand public dialogue. I suspect most of us would agree that "the times that try men's on contemporary issues. Some of us are in a position to do souls" have, if anything, worsened in recent years. If Paine more than this - teaching, writing or engaging in public action were alive today would he conclude we are progressing in the through the political process. quest for the full enjoyment of our unalienable rights? Or, As we know, victories by peacefully working for change would he be chagrined by the widespread loss of individual are few and far between, and right now it seems like the liberty and the resurgence of intolerance? dominoes are falling in a direction Paine would find quite Most of us in the United States and other politically stable fearful.
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