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and mysticism in the light of their shortcom- 

 ings when compared with the demands both 

 of reason and the spiritual sense. It points 

 out many important distinctions essential to 

 a just view of life, and indicates the dangers 

 of pantheism and of all one-sided conceptions 

 of the universe. In its practical aspect it 

 urges the same need of breadth and discrim- 

 ination which it finds essential to a sound 

 doctrine of reality. It is an urgent appeal 

 to life, a plea for the realization of ethics 

 and the application of spiritual law in every 

 moment of existence." Mr. Dresser is also 

 author of a book entitled The Power of 

 Silence. 



The fourth volume, completing the edi- 

 tion of Thi Writings of Thcmas Paine, 

 which Moncure Daniel Conway has collected 

 and edited, is almost wholly devoted to 

 Paine's religious writings. -About half of it 

 is occupied by The Age of Reason, to which 

 we called attention when it was issued sepa- 

 rately. This is followed by several essays 

 arguing against the reality of divine inspira- 

 tion in the Bible, and in support of a simple 



Deism and a pure morality. To appendixes 

 are relegated a number of shorter writings 

 autobiographical, political, and technological 

 including a few pieces of verse and his 

 will. In closing his labors on the history 

 and the writings of Thomas Paine, whom he 

 calls " the Great Commoner of mankind," 

 Mr. Conway says : " Personally I place a 

 very high value on Paine's writings in them- 

 selves, and not simply for their prophetic 

 genius, their humane spirit, and their vigoi- 

 ous style. While his type of Deism is not 

 to me satisfactory, his religious spirit at 

 times attains sublime heights \ and while his 

 republican formulas are at times impaired 

 by his eagerness to adapt thera to existing 

 conditions, I do not find any writer at all, 

 not even the most modern, who has equally 

 worked out a scheme for harmonizing the 

 inevitable rule of the majority with indi- 

 vidual freedom and rights." As to the his- 

 torical value of Paine's political writings 

 Mr. Conway adds, " He was literally the only 

 man who came out with the whole truth, re- 

 gardless of persons." (Putnams, $2.50 a 

 volume.) 



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