Els escrits de Thomas Paine, volum III
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De què tracta
El tercer volum de les obres de Paine en l'edicio de Conway: els escrits dels anys de la Revolucio francesa, sobretot «Els drets de l'home».
Context i història
«Els drets de l'home» es la resposta a les «Reflexions» de Burke, i les dues obres son al corpus: llegir-les seguides es la millor manera de veure la discussio politica fonamental del final del segle XVIII. Paine no argumenta com Burke: on l'altre parla de tradicio i de continuitat, ell sosté que cap generacio no pot obligar les que venen, que els drets no venen de la historia sino de la condicio humana, i que un govern que no es basi en el consentiment no es legitim per antic que sigui. La segona part conte propostes concretes que van molt endavant del seu temps: pensions de vellesa, subsidis per als fills, educacio publica, finançats amb impostos progressius. Li va costar una acusacio de sedicio i l'exili.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
America had internally sustained the ravages of upwards of seven years of war, which England had not. England sustained only the expence of the war; whereas America sustained not only the expence, but the destruction of property committed by _both_ armies. Not a house was built during that period, and many thousands were destroyed. The farms and plantations along the coast of the country, for more than a thousand miles, were laid waste. Her commerce was annihilated. Her ships were either taken, or had rotted within her own harbours. The credit of her funds had fallen upwards of ninety per cent., that is, an original hundred pounds would not sell for ten pounds. In fine, she was apparently put back an hundred years when the war closed, which was not the case with England. But such was the event, that the same representative system of government, though since better organized, which enabled her to conquer, enabled her also to recover, and she now presents a more flourishing condition, and a more happy and harmonized society, under that system of government, than any country in the world can boast under any other. Her towns are rebuilt, much better than before; her farms and plantations are in higher improvement than ever; her commerce is spread over the world, and her funds have risen from less than ten pounds the hundred to upwards of one hundred and twenty. Mr. Pitt and his colleagues talk of the things that have happened in his boyish administration, without knowing what greater things have happened elsewhere, and under other systems of government. I now come to state the expence of the two systems, as they now stand in each of the countries; but it may first be proper to observe, that government in America is what it ought to be, a matter of honour and trust, and not made a trade of for the purpose of lucre.…