have one consolation left in common with the
meanest and basest of mankind: civil liberty may
still last the life of JUNIUS."

I would call the attention of the reader to the manner in which they
close: to the _cause_ of which they speak: to the object of their
labors: to the fact that they stand above party or faction: to the
expression of Junius, "written by one of yourselves:" to the declaration
that if he lives he will often remind the English people of the danger
they are in and of the remedy: to the fact that Mr. Paine here does it,
and continues to do it ever after while he lives: in short, I would call
the attention of the reader to the perfect similarity in style, object,
and sentiment, save in this--the one was the requiem of Freedom in
England, the other, her natal song in America.

As I have called attention to the style, I would caution the reader not
to be betrayed by the word "hath" of Mr. Paine. It by no means affects
the style. It was doubtless used or not used at first as a blind by Mr.
Paine; for he sometimes used it and sometimes did not. A few years later
in life it is abandoned altogether, and Junius occasionally lets it
slip. See Let. 37. And also the word "doth."--Note, Let. 41.

The following gives a distinction between society and government, the
failure of human conscience, and the necessary surrender of human
liberty:

_Common Sense._

"Society in every state is a blessing, but
government even in its best state is but a
necessary evil. In its worst state, an intolerable
one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same
miseries by a government which we might expect in
a country without government, our calamity is
heightened by reflecting, that we furnish the
means by which we suffer. Government, like dress,
is the badge of lost innocence. The palaces of
kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of
paradise, for were the impulses of _conscience_
clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would
need no other law-giver; but that not being the
case, he finds it _necessary_ to surrender up a
part of his property to furnish means for the
protection of the rest; and this he is induced to
do by the same prudence which in every other case
advises him out of two evils to choose the least."

_Junius._

"It is not in the nature of human society that an