You may, perhaps, be unwilling to be serious, but this destruction of the goods of Providence, this havoc of the human race, and this sowing the world with mischief, must be accounted for to him who made and governs it.
Paine warns that the devastation of war and human suffering will ultimately be judged by God, the creator and governor of the world.
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