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Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, during the American Revolution. Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for independence from British rule at a time when the question of independence was still undecid...

在世界近代史上，托馬斯·潘恩的思想和著作對美利堅合眾國的誕生曾起了催化和促成的重要作用，他的精神遺產使他永駐美國的史冊。常識和理性是潘恩思想的兩個基本觀念，它體現了科學的精神，是判斷正確與謬誤的準繩，是反對迷信與盲從的有效武器，是引導後人追求真理的思維工具，也是這位世界公民為我們留下的一份有價值的遺產。他的文章語言精鍊、層次分明、結構嚴密，抒情與說理有機結合，邏輯性很強，是美國文學史上散文著作的經典。