...concept of government from that of society. Paine practically begins Common Sense with the statement "Some writers have so confounded society with government,...whereas they are not only different, but have different origins."1 Paine's point with this assertion is one not unfamiliar in radical Whig thought. He, like...

...viewpoint, which was shared by Mr. Paine, where, we find him intellectively delineating on the following; "Society is produced by our wants, and government...happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions....

...the virtue of civil society. "[Civil] society," he wrote, "is produced by our wants, and governments by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinction....

...rebel. 48 The locus classicus is Thomas Paine: "Some writers have so confounded government with society, as to leave little or no distinction between them;...happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions....

...CLASSICAL INDIVIDUALISM: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being THE "GOVERNMENT=SOCIETY" FALLACY "Some writers have so confounded society with government,...different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its...

...established by a parasitic caste of the pedigreed and privileged, as the chief author of human misery. Society is produced by our wants, and government by...happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions....

...defending the rights of man on the eve of the American Revolution, expresses the viewpoint very clearly: Society is produced by our wants, and government by...happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions....

...as a necessary evil, it is nonetheless necessary. As Thomas Paine wrote in his essay Common Sense, "Society is produced by our wants, and government...happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices." He concludes that government is "rendered necessary by...

...OF THB ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, WITH CONCISS REMARKS ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. SOME writers have so confounded society with government,...happiness positively, by uniting our affections; the latter negatively, by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions....

...inevitable: COMMON SENSE The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind. . . . Some writers have so confounded society with government,...happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. . . . Society in every state is a blessing, but government,...