„Mnoho ľudí, ktorí nedokázali pochopiť Rousseaua a boli by zmätení Montesquieuom, rozumeli Paineovi ako otvorenej knižke.“

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Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book.

The Philosophy of Paine (1925)
Kontext: Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp. There is nothing false, little that is subtle, and an impressive lack of the negative in Paine. He literally cried to his reader for a comprehending hour, and then filled that hour with such sagacious reasoning as we find surpassed nowhere else in American letters — seldom in any school of writing.

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