Agrarian justice : opposed to agrarian law, and to agrarian monopoly; being a plan for meliorating the condition of man, by creating in every nation a national fund, to pay to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, to enable him or her to begin the world; and also, ten pounds sterling per annum during life to every person now living of the age of fifty years, and to all others when they shall arrive at the age, to enable them to live in old age without wretchedness, and go decently out of the world. / By Thomas Paine ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Old age pensions--Early works to 1900.

Old age pensions.

Physical Description:

vii pages, 8 unnumbered pages-38 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

Edition:

[Third edition].

Place of Publication:

[London] : Paris, Printed by W. Adlard ... ;London, Reprinted and sold by J. Adlard ... and J. Parsons ..., [1797?]

Notes:

First published in Paris, 1797, under the title: "Thomas Payne à la legislature et au directoire. Ou la justice agraire opposée à la loi agraire, et aux privilèges agraires." It contained a prefatory letter to the legislature and the directory which was omitted in the early English and American editions, and first published in English in Conway's edition of Paine. cf. Paine, Writings, ed. by Conway, 1894-96, v. 3, p. 322.

Edition statement appears on half-title.

OCLC:

21933475