who-the-author-of.md (769B)
1 --- 2 attributed: false 3 date: '1776-02-14' 4 draft: false 5 lang: 'en' 6 misattributed: false 7 tags: ['Attention', 'Authorship', 'Doctrine', 'Idea', 'Intention'] 8 title: 'Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the DOCTRINE ITSELF, not the MAN.' 9 unverified: false 10 --- 11 12 # *Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the DOCTRINE ITSELF, not the MAN. Yet it may not be unnecessary to say, That he is unconnected wit hany Party, and under no sort of Influence public or private, but the influence of reason and principle.* 13 — Thomas Paine, in Philadelphia, February 14, 1776 <cite><abbr title="ISBN-13: 9780143036258">Common Sense 14 </abbr></cite>.