The suffering likewise softened the whole body of the people into a degree of pliability, which laid the principal foundation-stone of union, order, and government; and which, at any other time, might only have fretted and then faded away unnoticed and unimproved.
Paine argues that the collective suffering of the American people forged a crucial foundation for union, order, and government.
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