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CONTENTS
PAGE
Preface 5

PART I. JUNIUS UNMASKED

Introduction 7

Method 11

Mystery 13

Statement 17

Letter--To the Printer of the Public Advertiser 19

Comments on the Doctors Notes 38

Estimate of Junius, by Mr. Burke 42

Social Position 44

Junius Not a Partisan 47

A Revolutionist 55

Review of Junius 60

Common Sense 68

Style 93

Mental Characteristics 131

Review 186

PART II.

An Examination of the Declaration of Independence 201

Analysis 227

Argument 229

Style 234

Special Characteristics 242

Grand Outlines of Thomas Paines Life 279

Conclusion 320

APPENDIX 323

PREFACE.

One hundred years ago to-day, Junius wrote as follows:

"The man who fairly and completely answers this argument, shall
have my thanks and my applause.... Grateful as I am to the good
Being whose bounty has imparted to me this reasoning intellect,
whatever it is, I hold myself proportionably indebted to him from
whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge
communicates to mine. But neither should I think the most exalted
faculties of the human mind a gift worthy of the Divinity, nor any
assistance in the improvement of them a subject of gratitude to my
fellow-creatures, if I were not s