In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

* Paine, Thomas.

Hayek conceded that the national labels did not exactly correspond to those belonging to each tradition: Hayek saw the Frenchmen Montesquieu, Constant and Tocqueville as belonging to the " British tradition " and the British Thomas Hobbes, Priestley, Richard Price and Thomas Paine as belonging to the " French tradition ".

who wrote in a letter to Thomas Paine on the construction of an arch for a bridge:

Others such as Thomas Paine were agnostic about the immortality of the soul:

Thomas Paine

and Thomas Paine ( who published The Age of Reason, a treatise that helped to popularize deism throughout the USA and Europe ).

In 1993, Bob Johnson established the first Deist organization since the days of Thomas Paine and Elihu Palmer with the World Union of Deists.

* 1737 – Thomas Paine, English radical liberal philosopher, American revolutionary ( d. 1809 )

These were followed by developments in philosophy of human rights by philosophers such as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill and G. W. F.

* 1809 – Thomas Paine, English-American author and pamphleteer ( b. 1737 )

American novelist James Fennimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans and other novels reflect republican and egalitarian ideals present alike in Rousseau, Thomas Paine, and also in English Romantic primitivism.

As ambassador, Monroe secured the release of Thomas Paine in revolutionary France after his arrest for opposition to the execution of Louis XVI.

* 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.

Others, such as William Hazlitt and Thomas Paine, remained idealistic about the Revolution.

In the United States, many leftists, social liberals, progressives and trade unionists were influenced by the works of Thomas Paine, who introduced the concept of asset-based egalitarianism, which theorises that social equality is possible by a redistribution of resources.

Feminist pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft was influenced by the radical thinker Thomas Paine.

In the late 18th century the deist Thomas Paine commented at length on Moses ' Laws in The Age of Reason, and gave his view that " the character of Moses, as stated in the Bible, is the most horrid that can be imagined ", giving the story at as an example.

* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes " African Slavery in America ", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

Thomas Paine wrote the definitive book on the natural religion of Deism, The Age of Reason ( 1794 – 1807 ).

Expanded on the philosophy of Thomas Paine by instrumenting republicanism in the United States.

* Thomas Paine: Enlightenment writer who defended liberal democracy, the American Revolution, and French Revolution in Common Sense and The Rights of Man.

Deism was a religious philosophy in common currency in colonial times, and some Founding Fathers ( most notably Thomas Paine, who was an explicit proponent of it, and Benjamin Franklin, who spoke of it in his Autobiography ) are identified more or less with this system.

The Angel, Islington was formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man.

The medieval was the most important to Chambers because he sought to place Thomas More, the author of Utopia, in some intelligible relation with St. Thomas More, the martyr.

* 1959 – W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist

* 1785 – Thomas De Quincey, English author ( d. 1859 )

* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* 1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author ( b. 1915 )

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

In December 1588 Oxford had secretly sold his London mansion of Fisher's Folly to Sir William Cornwallis ; by January 1591 the author Thomas Churchyard was dealing with rent owing for rooms he had taken in a house on behalf of his patron.

For example, Ralph Waldo Emerson ’ s contempt for Jane Austen's works often extended to the author herself, with Emerson describing her as “ without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world .” In turn, Emerson himself was called a “ hoary-headed toothless baboon ” by Thomas Carlyle.

* Thomas Sowell ( economist, author, columnist )

* 1837 – Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury ( b. 1756 )

* 1478 – Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist and author ( d. 1535 )

Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: " Bacon, Locke and Newton.

* 1940 – Thomas Disch, American science fiction author and poet ( d. 2008 )

* Thomas Gent ( 1693-1778 ), printer and author

* Thomas Robson, author of The British Herald ( 1830 ).

* Host, an author abbreviation in botany for Nicolaus Thomas Host

File: Nida ThomasMann cottage. jpg | Horse head gables on German author Thomas Mann's cottage in Nida, Lithuania

* 1835 – Thomas W. Knox, American author ( d. 1896 )

In the words of author Thomas Doherty, " For American popular culture, the image of the zaftig FBI director as a Christine Jorgensen wanna-be was too delicious not to savor ”.

John Thomas Sayles ( born September 28, 1950 ) is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.

Black Sunday, based on author Thomas Harris's only non-Hannibal Lecter novel, involves an Israeli Mossad agent ( Robert Shaw ), chasing a Palestinian terrorist ( Marthe Keller ) and a disgruntled Vietnam vet ( Bruce Dern ), who plan to blow up the Goodyear blimp over the Super Bowl.

* 1780 – Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist ( d. 1847 )

* 1756 – Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher and religious figure ( d. 1837 )