us together to show parallels of idea,
method, and style.

COMMON SENSE was addressed to the inhabitants of
America, the Introduction of which is as follows:

"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following
pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to
procure them general favor; a long habit of not
thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial
appearance of being right, and raises, at first, a
formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the
tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts
than Reason."

{71}JUNIUS was dedicated to the English nation;
portions of the Dedication are as follows:

"I dedicate to you a collection of letters
written _by one of yourselves_, for the common
benefit of us all. They would never have grown to
this size without your continued encouragement and
applause. To me they originally owe nothing but a
healthy, sanguine constitution. Under your care
they have thriven; to you they are indebted for
whatever strength or beauty they possess."

"A long and violent abuse of power is generally
the means of calling the right of it in question
(and in matters, too, which might never have been
thought of had not the sufferers been aggravated
into the inquiry), and as the king of England hath
undertaken, in his _own right_, to support the
parliament in what he calls _theirs_, and as the
good people of this country are grievously
oppressed by the combination, they have an
undoubted privilege to inquire into the
pretensions of both, and equally to reject the
usurpations of either.

"In the following sheets the author hath
studiously avoided every thing which is personal
among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to
individuals make no part thereof. The wise and the
worthy need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and
those whose sentiments are injudicious or
unfriendly will cease of themselves, unless too
much pains is bestowed upon their conversion."

"When kings and ministers are forgotten, when the
force and direction of personal satire is no
longer understood, and when measures are only felt
in their remotest consequences, this book will, I
bel