...universal felicity'. 91 On the first page of his tract Common Sense (1776), Paine had written that 'Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence;...are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.' B2 With the dismantling of the monarchy in France, it seemed to the likes of Paine and Spence that...

...)1776), where he is arguing that "government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil', and adds: 'Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise'79 )the passage illustrates, incidentally, what Fussell never...

...Meanwhile, in Europe, the hereditary succession of kings is "unanswerably" a parallel to original sin. Since "the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise," it follows that "reconciliation and ruin are nearly related." Scientifically, monarchy is an unwanted...

...government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence;...were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistably obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary...

...in the same pamphlet, though a commonplace of radical thinking, has a Miltonic resonance and pathos: 'Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence. The palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.'23 Adams was the new republic's first ambassador in England,...

...lost innocence," a sign that the original cooperation of humanity that instituted society had failed, "for were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform...irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other law-giver." Such lack of government, he implied, was the case in original society. But—and here Paine typifies...

...to express political abstractions in concrete images that were at once "sensual" and "consensual": "Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of Paradise" (1776; Foner 1:4-5). The Chinese dissidents who recendy signaled...

...Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; • 472 • the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the...he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same...

...government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly...

...government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one [. . .] Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly...