Atlantic Monthly: (July, 1859): "His career was wonderful, even for the age of miraculous events he lived in. In America he was a Revolutionary hero of the first rank, who carried letters in his pocket from George Washington, thanking him for his services. And he managed besides to write his radical name in large letters in the History of England and France." W. W. Bartlett: "He was undeniably preeminent among statesmen, and by his many-sidedness he succeeded in rousing the whole civilized world." Marshall J. Gauvin: "In honoring the memory of Thomas Paine we recognize and salute one of the greatest forces in history." "Other men have followed events; Paine actually created them.... he wanted a Declaration of Independence, and he produced the wish for it."--_Gilbert Vale._ Hugh Byron Brown: "There are a few great men who, like milestones along the road of progress, are so distinguished and prominent, and who have so influenced the destinies of nations, as to mark an epoch in the world's history. Such a man was Thomas Paine." Michael Monahan: "One of the notables of history." Rev. E. M. Frank: "Thomas Paine was, in his time, one who stood in the forefront of human progress." Dr. Edward Bond Foote: "As Lincoln was the man for his time and place, so Paine fitted perfectly and filled remarkably the niche which history allotted to him." Horace L. Green: "Thomas Paine, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, the glorious trinity of Independence." Eugene V. Debs: "The revolutionary history of the United. States and France stirred me deeply and its heroes and martyrs became my idols. Thomas Paine towered above them all." Knut Martin Teigen, M.D., Ph.D.: "Thomas Paine was, beyond all doubt, a true genius." Dr. John Walker (with Paine in France): "There can be no question that Paine was a man of the most gigantic genius and of the soundest practical knowledge." Joel Barlow, ambassador to France during Napoleon's reign, Paine's companion in London and Paris, and to whom he entrusted the manuscript of his "Age of Reason" when he was taken to prison, says: "Paine was endowed with the clearest perception, an uncommon share of original genius, and the greatest depth of thought.... As a visiting acquaintance and literary friend, he was one of the most instructive men I have ever known." "He ought to be ranked among the brightest and most undeviating luminaries of the age in which he lived."--_Ibid._ "To me Thomas Paine appears as one of the master spirits of the earth."--_Horace Seaver._ "One who deserves from his still ungrateful country an honored place in her Hall of Fame."--_Rev. Eugene Rodman Shippen._ Rev. Dr. L. M. Birkhead: "Paine in days to come will be considered one of the greatest men and statesmen the world has ever known." "I regard Thomas Paine as one of the greatest men the world has ever produced, and all ought to be proud that he belonged to our race."--_Sir Hiram Maxim._ Glasgow Herald: "Paine was greater than he knew."