Thomas Paine: “Nothing could be a more critical situation than this, and if ever the fate of America depended upon the event of a day…”

To account for this sudden transition, it is proper to observe that there are two distinct species of popularity; the one excited by merit, and the other by resentment.

The argument changes from hereditary rights to hereditary wisdom; and the question is, Who is the wisest man?

He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.