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Thomas Paine: It concentrates the knowledge necessary to the interest of the parts, and of the whole.

On the recordJanuary 1, 1791
It concentrates the knowledge necessary to the interest of the parts, and of the whole.
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Thomas Paine

Editor's note · Context

In "Rights of Man," Paine describes how representative government gathers and applies collective knowledge for the good of all.

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