In this section of Thomas Paine he talks about European powers and how they control America. On the first page Paine states that America would flourish even if they weren’t under European power. He compares America to a baby saying ”We may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our life is to become a precedent for the next twenty.” What I get from this is that if we don’t try to thrive on our own that we will never know what we can accomplish. Another thing he says is that the way he is trying to figure out the future is by what happened in the past. He argues saying “That she hath protected us is true, and defended the continent at our expense as well as her
