Los escritos de Thomas Paine, volumen III
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~160.000 palabras · 765 pasajes
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De qué trata
El tercer volumen de las obras de Paine en la edición de Conway: los escritos de los años de la Revolución francesa, sobre todo «Los derechos del hombre».
Contexto e historia
«Los derechos del hombre» es la respuesta a las «Reflexiones» de Burke, y ambas obras están en el corpus: leerlas seguidas es la mejor manera de ver la discusión política fundamental de finales del siglo XVIII. Paine no argumenta como Burke: donde el otro habla de tradición y de continuidad, él sostiene que ninguna generación puede obligar a las que vienen, que los derechos no vienen de la historia sino de la condición humana, y que un gobierno que no se base en el consentimiento no es legítimo por antiguo que sea. La segunda parte contiene propuestas concretas muy adelantadas a su tiempo: pensiones de vejez, subsidios por hijos, educación pública, financiados con impuestos progresivos. Le costó una acusación de sedición y el destierro.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…