Common Sense - Conclusion

ConclusionQuoteThe present age will hereafter merit to be called the Age of Reason, and the present generation will appear to the future as the Adam of a new world. Notes🔥 In the late 18th century, the word "revolution" took on a different meaning, more "linked to a belief in the advancement of mankind from barberism to civilization, based on the spread of enlightenment and on the inalienable rights of man." Thomas Paine was a leading figure in this shift of meaning and perspective. 🔥 He struggled to find his way growing up, but eventually landed in America and was immersed in the coffee-house culture of Philadelphia where the American revolution was being seeded. 🔥 His book, Common Sense, was a hugely powerful and popular pamphlet "that did more than any other publication to persuade America of the justice and necessity of independence." 🔥 His devotion was more to the ideals and principles of liberty and equality, less to the country of America. It was more a vehicle to amplify those…