Junius Unmasked / Or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence

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4. The APPENDIX, published separately, has been included in this e-text.
5. This book was published anonymously, however is attributed to author JOEL MOODY (1834-1914).
Non stat diutius nominis umbra.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
JOHN GRAY & CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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 satisfied that really to inform the understanding corrects and enlarges the heart.
These were the concluding words of his last Letter. So say I now, and I make them the preface to an argument which now sets the great apostle of liberty right before the world. They serve, like a literary hyphen, to connect the two ages—his own with this; and the two lives—the masked with the open one; in both of which ages and lives he did good to mankind, and that mightily.