12mo 7" - 7½" tall; [1], 48 pages; Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 1, page 178: "Anon. Authorship attributed to Barlow by Evans and others but without accompanying evidence of his authorship. Howard, p. 425, says `...listed as Barlow's in most library catalogues...; yet there seems no reason to doubt the statement on the title-page that is was by "a citizen of New York," who, according to the preface, sent the work to the printer a few pages at a time and may have been either John Fellows or any of the group of free-thinkers who surrounded him at the time.' **W.A. Smith's Who's Who in Hell: "a freethinker and a freethought publisher, was a personal friend of Thomas Paine."

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