nalysis, and show the writer to have given his attention to chemistry.
Mr. Paine, it is well known, in 1775, shortly after arriving in
America, "set his talents to work" to _make_ saltpeter by some cheap and
expeditious method, and formed an association to supply gratuitously the
national magazines with powder. This fact also shows that Mr. Paine came
to America to fight England; for it was before he had written his Common
Sense. His object was, to be prepared; his method was, first the powder
and then the Declaration of Independence, which last was produced by the
pamphlet Common Sense.

_Paine._

"It renders man diminutive in things that are
great, and the counterfeit of woman in things that
are small."--Rights of Man, part i.

_Junius._

"Women, and men like women, are timid, vindictive,
and irresolute."--Let. 41.

"Fact is superior to reasoning."--Rights of Man,
part ii., chap. i.

"The plain evidence of facts is superior to all
declarations."--Let. 5.

"You sunk yourself below the character of a
private gentleman."--Crisis, ii.

"You are degraded below the condition of a
man."--Let. 34.

"Now if I have any conception of the _human
heart_, they will fail in this more than in any
thing they have yet tried."--Crisis, iii.

"I thought, however, he had been better read in
the history of the _human heart_."--Let. 27.

Mr. Paine and Junius both reasoned, and this very often, from the nature
of man, and especially his passions. The following are parallels:

_Paine._

"Spirit of prophecy."
"Man of spirit."
"Air of."
"Strokes of."
"Give color to."
"Tranquillity of."
"Narrow views."

_Junius._

"Spirit of prophecy."
"Man of spirit."
"Air of."
"Strokes of."
"Give color to."
"Tranquillity of."
"Narrow views."

"But the great hinge on which the whole machine
turned, is the _union of the States_."--Crisis,
xv., note.

"This is not the hinge on which the debate
turns."--Let. 16.

"Each individual feels his share of the wound
given to the whole."--Crisis, xii.

"I consider nothing but the wound which has bee