Thomas Paine: “How irrational then is the hereditary system, which establishes channels of power, in company with which wisdom refuses…”

It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.

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

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.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.