Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man

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In the first place, an outline of Paine’s shocking life and profession is to start with a feeling of a miracle that he was ever ready to develop by any means. A most loved sonnet of the mid-eighteenth century was Thomas Gray’s ‘Requiem Written in a Country Churchyard’, and I think that its difficult to consider Paine without returning to this magnum opus of the might-have-been: