“Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.” (Thomas Paine Common Sense) On January 9th, 1776 Common Sense was published, it was written in simple words so it was an easy read and presented good reasons on why America should independent of British law. “Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.” (Thomas Paine Common Sense) Society in Paine’s view is everything good in the world and Government is everything bad. So a Government driven by society, a representative democracy, would be the best for society. Paine then uses an anecdote, of a small group of people on a foreign island with no exterior influence. “In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let us suppose a
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Paine did not receive a warm welcome when he came back to America. He had alienated many people with his religious work The Age of Reason, where he trashed the Bible and the Christian faith. Paine was however very helpful in the purchasing of the Louisiana Territory from France. His health grew increasingly worse over the next few years and only had Mme de Bonneville to take care of him. With his health getting increasingly worse he was moved to farmhouse in Greenwich, New York in early 1809. He died June 8th, 1809 at the age of 72 in New York, only 6 people attended his funeral at his farm in New Rochelle. To pour salt in the wound of his tarnished reputation the New York Citizen of the time wrote this in his obituary "He had lived long, did some good and much
Paine did not receive a warm welcome when he came back to America. He had alienated many people with his religious work The Age of Reason, where he trashed the Bible and the Christian faith. Paine was however very helpful in the purchasing of the Louisiana Territory from France. His health grew increasingly worse over the next few years and only had Mme de Bonneville to take care of him. With his health getting increasingly worse he was moved to farmhouse in Greenwich, New York in early 1809. He died June 8th, 1809 at the age of 72 in New York, only 6 people attended his funeral at his farm in New Rochelle. To pour salt in the wound of his tarnished reputation the New York Citizen of the time wrote this in his obituary "He had lived long, did some good and much