they admit of cessation
and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform
passion. It neither abates of its vigor nor
changes its object."--Crisis, x.

"I could never have a doubt in law or reason
that a man convicted of a high breach of trust and
of a notorious corruption in the execution of a
public office, was and ought to be incapable of
sitting in the same parliament."--Let. 20.

I call attention to that pride of character and personal honor, so
conspicuous in both Paine and Junius:

_Paine._

"A man who has no sense of honor, has no sense of
shame."--Let. to Cheetham.

_Junius._

"Honor and honesty must not be renounced, although
a thousand modes," etc.--Let. 58.

"Knowing my own heart, and feeling myself, as I
now do, superior to all the skirmish of party, the
inveteracy of interested, or mistaken opponents, I
answer not to falsehood or abuse."--R. M., part
ii.

"Junius will never descend to dispute with such a
writer as Modestus."--Let. 29.

"Fortified with that proud integrity, that disdain
to triumph or to yield, I will advocate the rights
of man."--Do.

"For my own part, my lord, I am proud to affirm,
that if I had been weak enough to form such a
friendship, I would never have been base enough to
betray it."--Let. 9.

A thousand passages might be selected from both to show this riding
trait of character. The proud, imposing spirit that would dare to
undertake the business of a world for the good of mankind, and to tread
on the pride of courtiers, and to tell the king, who ruled over the
greatest nation on earth, that nature had only intended him for a
good-humored fool, is pre-eminently the leading trait in Junius and
Paine. No one can mistake it; no one can fail in finding it; no one can
help feeling the force of it. It has never been produced in any other
man. The world's history has given us but the one example of it. We
search in vain for another parallel. And if Mr. Paine did not write
Junius, nature produced twins of the same mental type to do the same
work for mankind, and then defeated all her arts and gave the lie to all
her laws, by exhibiting the one and forever concealing the other. But
surely nature can conceal nothing.