"The two men who have left the richest heritage of thought and made the deepest imprint upon the minds of mankind for future ages,... Thomas Paine and Charles Darwin [Darwin was born in the year that Paine died], were in turn the Elijah and the Elisha of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries of the Christian era. One hundred years ago today Thomas Paine let fall his mantle of light upon the infant shoulders of Charles Darwin and vanished in a chariot of fire that shall blaze the trail of the seeker after truth from generation unto generation."--_Alden Freeman_. Edward G Wentworth: "Giordano Bruno was one of the world's martyrs who died for a cause. Thomas Paine was one of the world's martyrs who lived for a cause. Each has created an imperishable name." George Jacob Holyoake: "Paine was the most intrepid and influential Englishman that ever sprang from the ranks of the people." "The man who was the confidant of Burke, the counsellor of Franklin, and the friend and colleague of Washington, must have had great qualities." "He belongs to England. His fame is the property of England; and if no other people will show that they value that fame, the people of England will:"--_William Cobbett_. Rev. J. Lloyd Jones, LL. D.: "Great souls are the key-stones in the arches that unite the races.... German provincialism died when Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe were born. The insignificant island lost its insular character when Shakespeare wrote. The emaciated thirteen colonies became great when Washington, Franklin, Paine, and Jefferson spoke for them." Mohammed Ali Webb: "All educated Mohammedans know him. The intelligent Moslem places Thomas Paine among the world's admirable men and holds his memory in great reverence." U. Dhammaloka: "The Buddhist Tract Society of Burmah observed the one hundreth anniversary of the death of Thomas Paine. We had large audiences. I myself [president of this society] spoke to an audience of about five thousand at a town in Upper Burmah." Kedàrnath Basu (of India): "My countrymen are beginning to admire and revere the noble character of Thomas Paine." Yoshiro Oyama (Japan): "Thomas Paine was one of the greatest of the great men of the world." Francois Thane: "The French people would be proud to have his ashes rest in the Pantheon beside the grave of Voltaire." George Legg Henderson: "The time is not far distant when all the world will recognize in Thomas Paine the martyr, the hero, the man." Prof. A. L. Rawson, LL. D.: "More men like Paine are wanted, and will appear from time to time, until the whole human race has grown in intelligence, reason and taste." Judge Arnold Krekel, LL. D.: "Let us carry forward, then, the work in which the man we honor was so largely and so successfully engaged." Libby C. Macdonald: "The lips of Thomas Paine are still in death, but we can voice his principles through ours." "I commend the study of the life of Paine to the young men of today."--_Hon. William J. Gaynor._