"We find in Paine united two qualities which were rare in the eighteenth century--political sagacity and humanity."--_Hector Macpherson._ "His career is only reduced to intelligible consistency when we recognize that the impelling force behind his social, political and religious activities was an overmastering passion for humanity."--_Ibid._ Edwin C. Walker:. "Paine was the least insular, the least provincial--the most cosmopolitan--of all whose names have come down to us from the ages gone... His sympathies were broader even than all humanity, for they enclosed other forms of life as well, and were as varied as the needs of all who suffered and aspired." Ellery Sedgwick: "He hated cruelty in every form. He hated war, he hated slavery, he hated injustice; and his public life was one long battle against every form of oppression." "His free lance was ever at the service of the poor and oppressed, but never to be bought by favors of the court, or awed by the menaces of kings or the anathemas of priests."--_Hugh Byron Brown._ J. W. Whicker: "The growth of knowledge in the passing years will hallow the name of this author, this patriot, this hero of two continents. His life and his deeds are one sweet story of service for his kind." John R. Charlesworth: "His weapon was a pen. His mind jeweled with gems of thought, richer by far than silver or gold, he gave of his intellectual treasures without price." "Long live the man, in early contest found, Who spoke-his heart when dastards trembled round; Who, fired with more than Greek or Roman rage, Flashed truth on tyrants from his manly page." --Dr. Joseph B. Ladd. Rev. Brooke Hereford: "Thomas Paine was the great defender of human rights and merits the everlasting gratitude of man." Rev. Dr. David Swing: "He was one of the best and grandest men that ever trod the planet." Charles Phillips: "Thomas Paine, no matter what may be the difference of opinion as to his principles, must ever remain a proud example of mind, unpatronized and unsupported, eclipsing the factitious beams of rank, and wealth, and pedigree. I never saw him in his captivity, or heard the revilings by which he has since been assailed, without cursing in my heart that ungenerous feeling which, cold to the necessities of genius, is clamorous in the publication of its defects.