The same notions, prejudices, and conceits, would have governed in both countries, as governed them before; and, still the slaves of error and education, they would have travelled on in the beaten tract of vulgar and habitual thinking.
This quote suggests that without the Revolution, both America and Britain would have remained trapped in outdated thinking.
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