In 1964, the Thomas Paine Society UK foundation was founded with a goal of promoting a better understanding of the man and his work. The Thomas Paine Society UK became the premier Thomas Paine historical society in the UK. In 2025, the Thomas Paine National Historical Association merged with the Thomas Paine Society UK to form the internationally-focused Thomas Paine Historical Association. This is the 1971 Number 1 Volume 4 edition of the Thomas Paine Society UK Bulletin, published from 1965 to 2013.
No one illustrates a form of committing political suicide better than Thomas Paine. He did not hesitate a moment to rush in to promote every good cause and to expose every injustice, and he ended up being generally despised, with virtually everyone his enemy for one reason or another.
Richard Gimbel was a Colonel in the United States Army Air Force, so you would expect that. But he had another kind of bravery, too moral, which he particularly showed in the United States during the “Cold War.”
Volney was the author of a great many works but it is beyond question that his most influential was “The Ruins”. It first appeared in France in 1791 (the year that saw Part 1 of Paine’s Rights of Man appear), and soon ran through several editions.
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