トマス・ペイン著作集 第3巻
- 言語:
- 英語
- 状態:
- 完全な作品
- 著者性:
- 著者自身による
- テキストの状態:
- スキャンのノイズは検出されていません (全文に対する自動測定で、人の目では確認していません)
- 分量:
- 約 160,000 語 · 765 節
この作品を引用
- APAトーマス・ペイン. (n.d.). The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. [トマス・ペイン著作集 第3巻]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/thomas-paine/the-writings-of-thomas-paine-volume-iii
- MLAトーマス・ペイン. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. [トマス・ペイン著作集 第3巻]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/thomas-paine/the-writings-of-thomas-paine-volume-iii.
- Chicagoトーマス・ペイン. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. [トマス・ペイン著作集 第3巻]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/thomas-paine/the-writings-of-thomas-paine-volume-iii.
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何についての本か
コンウェイ版ペイン著作集の第三巻。フランス革命期の文章を収め、なかでも『人間の権利』が中心である。
背景と歴史
『人間の権利』はバークの『省察』への答えであり、二作とも本文庫にある。続けて読むことが、十八世紀末の根本的な政治論争を見るいちばんの道だ。ペインの論じ方はバークと違う。あちらが伝統と連続を語るのに対し、彼はこう説く。いかなる世代も後に来る世代を縛ることはできない。権利は歴史からではなく、人間であることそのものから来る。そして同意の上に立たない統治は、どれほど古かろうと正統ではない。第二部には、時代をはるかに先んじた具体的な提案がある。老齢年金、児童手当、公教育。財源は累進課税である。彼はこれによって扇動罪に問われ、亡命することになった。
これは編集上の背景であり、引用できる典拠ではありません。作品本文の一節とは異なり、これらの記述はコーパスで検証できません。
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.…