书名：Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine 常识、人的权利及托马斯·潘恩作品选集
作者：Thomas Paine托马斯·潘恩
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2003
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451528896
商品尺寸：10.6 x2.9 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：416 （以实物为准）

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine《常识、人的权利及托马斯·潘恩作品选集》为Signet Classics推出的便携英文原版书，收录Common Sense《常识》、The Rights of Man《人权宣言》、The Crisis《美国危机》、The Age of Reason《理性时代》等作品。本书由Jack Fruchtman Jr.撰写前言，Sidney Hook作介绍，内容完整无删减。
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即使在今天，历史学家也普遍认为“除了《汤姆叔叔的小屋》，美国再也没有一部著作能像《常识》那样巨大的影响”。
美国国父华盛顿：《常识》在“很多人心里，包括他自己在内，引起了一种巨大的变化”。
约翰•亚当斯：“如果没有《常识》作者手中的笔，华盛顿手中的剑也是没用的。”
罗伯斯庇尔热情称赞潘恩“是一个人类权力非常雄辩的辩护者”。

“Without... Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”  — John Adams

A volume of Thomas Paine’s most essential works, showcasing one of American history’s most eloquent proponents of democracy.

Upon publication, Thomas Paine’s modest pamphlet Common Sense shocked and spurred the foundling American colonies of 1776 to action. It demanded freedom from Britain—when even the most fervent patriots were only advocating tax reform. Paine’s daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence and, consequently, the Revolutionary War. For “without the pen of Paine,” as John Adams said, “the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” 
 
Later, his impassioned defense of the French Revolution, Rights of Man, caused a worldwide sensation. Napoleon, for one, claimed to have slept with a copy under his pillow, recommending that “a statue of gold should be erected to [Paine] in every city in the universe.” 
Here in one volume, these two complete works are joined with selections from Pain’s other major essays, “The Crisis,” “The Age of Reason,” and “Agrarian Justice.”

Includes a Foreword by Jack Fruchtman Jr.
and an Introduction by Sidney Hook

Common Sense《常识》是“美国体制之父”托马斯·潘恩的代表作，深刻揭露了英国的黑暗与压迫本质，使得很多北美人下定决心与英国决裂，极大地鼓舞了美国独立士气，成为北美人民明确的战斗纲领和建立独立的美利坚合众国的指路灯。《常识》的思想随后被吸收为《独立宣言》的精华，成为现代美国政治制度的灵魂，入选“改变美国的20本书”。
The Crisis《美国危机》以战报形式写成，写于1776年12月23日的第一期有关战争的形势。当时北美的民兵在与英国统治者的军队交战时处于劣势。潘恩以法国民族英雄贞德等例子鼓舞北美民兵的战斗意志。他说，北美人民一定会取得后来的胜利，因为正义在北美人民的手里，并且得到广大人民的支持。25日，华盛顿将部队集合，分组对士兵朗读。潘恩的文章大大激励了战士们的士气，终于扭转了第一阶段的战局。
The Rights of Man《人的权利》是托马斯·潘恩极为成熟与系统化的政治思想作品，书中驳斥了埃德蒙·伯克在《法国大革命之反思》中对法国大革命的抨击，点出了法国革命的划时代意义，并成为启蒙运动的指导作品之一。“它冲破了当时笼罩于整个西方先进思想界对英国君主立宪政体的迷信，深刻地批判了这一政体，给当时还处于摸索状态的法国革命指明了共和主义的崭新方向。”该书曾被英国媒体评为“改变世界的十大著作”之一，与《资本论》齐名。
The Age of Reason《理性时代》分两个部分, 第一部分主要涉及耶稣和他的历史、基督神学和真正的神学、《圣经》的属性等，第二部分通过《旧约》与《新约》对《圣经》提出了文本上的质疑。

Thomas Paine was born in England in 1737 and worked as a schoolteacher, storekeeper, and customs inspector before moving to Philadelphia in 1774. He quickly acquired a reputation as a journalist and published his hugely successful and influential pamphlet Common Sense in 1776. The Crisis, written when Paine was a soldier in the darkest days of the revolution—with its famous opening words, “These are the times that try men’s souls”—called for perseverance and prevented Washington’s army from disintegrating. To honor him for defending the French Revolution in Rights of Man, France made him a citizen and elected him to their constitutional convention. He died in 1809.
托马斯·潘恩，英裔美国思想家、作家、政治活动家、理论家、革命家、激进民主主义者。美国独立战争期间，他撰写了铿锵有力并广为流传的小册子《常识》极大地鼓舞了北美民众的独立情绪，也被广泛视为美国开国元勋之一。后来受到法国大革命影响，潘恩撰写了《人的权利》，成为启蒙运动的指导作品之一。英国囚犯、美国精神领袖、法国革命者，这三个词，足以概括潘恩的一生。

PERHAPSTHE sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. Butthetumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. As a long and violent abuse of power is generally the means of calling the right of it in question (and inMatters too which might never have been thought of, had not the sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as theKing of England hath undertaken in hisown Right, to support the parliament in what he callsTheirs, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpations of either. 
In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided everything which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise and the worthy need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains is bestowed upon their conversion.
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of party censure, is…