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6/24/2025, 6:48:13 AM
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It's pg 4 on the pdf edition, under the section entitled
>Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
>Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed
by some subsequent circumstance: the distinctions of rich and poor may in a great measure
be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh ill-sounding names of
oppression and avarice. Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means
of riches; and tho’ avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally
makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
Here is a copy you can find online for free, ON MARXISTS.ORG demonstrating a common lineage of thought.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/paine/works/common-sense/ch03.htm
It's pg 4 on the pdf edition, under the section entitled
>Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession
>Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed
by some subsequent circumstance: the distinctions of rich and poor may in a great measure
be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh ill-sounding names of
oppression and avarice. Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means
of riches; and tho’ avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally
makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
Here is a copy you can find online for free, ON MARXISTS.ORG demonstrating a common lineage of thought.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/paine/works/common-sense/ch03.htm
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