In the book Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, the ideas of the Enlightenment and that how our country needs to become free from England's tyrannical rule are the main issues in Paine's writings.In Thomas Paine's little pamphlet, his words set fire to the imagination and sparked movement in the eyes of the colonists in the establishment of the independence of the United States.In 1776, the colonies set forth by England were in a moral battle between themselves.Should they stay loyal to England or was it time to make a move for independence?By writing his theories of Enlightenment and of independence virtues Paine, gave flight to an American nation. Common Sense was written in 1776 in order to gain support for his cause, which was the cause of Enlightenment.The Enlightenment was not just a movement in the 1700's; it was a way of thinking.Thomas Paine believed that by writing this pamphlet he could enlighten the people around him.By using Enlightenment ideas he tried to instill the idea of human reason, and scientific developments was the new era of thinking.By using this idea, Paine thought that a new government could be created to free the people of the colonies, and end the incorporation of England in their country.The Enlightenment ideas of Isaac Newton, Rene Descartes, Pierre Bayle, Francis Bacon, and John Locke, made developments in the belief of natural law and universal order, and human reason.
Paine wrote, "I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect.Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument.We may as well assert, that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat; or that thefirst twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the nex…
