We may not, perhaps, be wise enough to make all the advantages we ought of our independence; but they are, nevertheless, marked and presented to us with every character of great and good, and worthy the hand of him who sent them.
Paine asserts in "The American Crisis" that the benefits of independence are inherently good and divinely ordained, regardless of human capacity to fully realize them.
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