It was not Newton's honor, neither could it be his pride, that he was an Englishman, but that he was a philosopher, the heavens had liberated him from the prejudices of an island, and science had expanded his soul as boundless as his studies.
Paine uses Isaac Newton as an example in "The American Crisis" to illustrate how universal science liberates the mind from national prejudices.
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