[PDF] Memorial Celebration Of The One Hundredth Anniversary Of The Death Of Thomas Paine eBook

Author : Thomas Paine National Historical Associa
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781363864508

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Author : Thomas Paine Historical Association
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780428258894

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Excerpt from Memorial Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Thomas Paine: At the Paine Monument, Paine Avenue and North Street, New Rochelle, N. Y., Saturday, June 5th, 1909, 2 P. M The improved position of the Paine monument at New Rochelle is material and visible proof of the rise of Paine himself in public esteem. The con trast as regards the monument is Shown in two pictures the truth seeker has printed this week., The monument was erected seventy years ago in the corner of a field at the intersection of a country road and a lane. Today it has been elevated to a place where two avenues meet, with broad drives on three sides of it. The improvement of the Site has involved a vast amount of filling in, and the old trees that Shaded and half hid the monument have been preserved by circular retaining walls about' their trunks. The old Paine house stands ina park by a walled brook that feeds a pretty lake with a pergola (or is it a peristyle?) at the lower end. The little company who journeyed to New Rochelle a hundred years ago to bury Paine would think themselves in a strange country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Leigh Eric Schmidt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691217254

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The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religion In The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737–1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century. After Paine’s remains were stolen from his grave in New Rochelle, New York, and shipped to England in 1819, the reverence of his American disciples took a material turn in a long search for his relics. Paine’s birthday was always a red-letter day for these believers in democratic cosmopolitanism and philanthropic benevolence, but they expanded their program to include a broader array of rites and ceremonies, particularly funerals free of Christian supervision. They also worked to establish their own churches and congregations in which to practice their religion of secularism. All of these activities raised serious questions about the very definition of religion and whether it included nontheistic fellowships and humanistic associations—a dispute that erupted again in the second half of the twentieth century. As right-wing Christians came to see secular humanism as the most dangerous religion imaginable, small communities of religious humanists, the heirs of Paine’s followers, were swept up in new battles about religion’s public contours and secularism’s moral perils. An engrossing account of an important but little-known chapter in American history, The Church of Saint Thomas Paine reveals why the lines between religion and secularism are often much blurrier than we imagine.

Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 2007-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374707065

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Thomas Paine was one of the most remarkable political writers of the modern world and the greatest radical of a radical age. Through writings like Common Sense—and words such as "The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth," "We have it in our power to begin the world over again," and "These are the times that try men's souls"—he not only turned America's colonial rebellion into a revolutionary war but, as Harvey J. Kaye demonstrates, articulated an American identity charged with exceptional purpose and promise.