Thomas Paine: “She wants an expanded mind,--an heart which embraces the universe.”

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.

Because aristocracy has a tendency to deteriorate the human species.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.