ENG 250W Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Monarchy Of The United Kingdom
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The age of enlightenment and the age of the american revolution. God just set up how the world will operate, and after that there is no other purpose, everything can be explained by scientific thought. Wednesday, sept. 20: thomas paine, selections (norton a, 681-702); thomas jefferson, Came to america in 1774, right before revolutionary war. He began to argue that american colonists free themselves from british. 1 had a great impact on the americans, and led to the enrollment of troops to fight for american independence. Government as a necessary evil the natural state of man is to live without government, and government"s existence is justified only to the extent that it alleviates problems that would be created by this natural, anarchic way of life. By convincing his audience that america will be independent some day, it is much easier for paine to make the case for an immediate and full rebellion.
