Burke writes, namely, that the people must be hood-winked, and held in superstitious ignorance by some bugbear or other; and what is called the crown answers this purpose, and therefore it answers all the purposes to be expected from it.
Paine critiques the British ministry's strategy of keeping the populace ignorant through the symbol of the crown.
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