_January 29 was the anniversary of Paine's birth and I've been catching up on some more interesting pieces in Google Books on him: Thomas L. Nichols' "Paine Festival Address" of 1856: http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC23888578&id=A_BbeMkAHfMC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Paine+Festival <http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC23888578&id=A_BbeMkAHfMC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Paine+Festival>
Nichols, although usually associated with SP Andrews and the free love movement, was, like Calvin Blanchard, one of the 3rd generation American Painites. It's interesting how they would often merge Painite radicalism with other ideas of the time, such as spiritualism. See Charles Hammond's "Light from the Spirit World: The Pilgrimage of Thomas Paine and Others To The Seventh Circle in the Spirit World" (1852): http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC13786402&id=Drs3-seulaYC&pg=RA1-PR7&lpg=RA1-PR7&dq=thomas+paine&as_brr=1#PPP15,M1 <http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC13786402&id=Drs3-seulaYC&pg=RA1-PR7&lpg=RA1-PR7&dq=thomas+paine&as_brr=1#PPP15,M1> Best to you. Just Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com http://charlestsprading.blogspot.com http://spencerheath.blogspot.com _ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
