In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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 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.