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Paine wrote Rights of Man in defense of the revolution against Burkes critiques.


I deeply appreciate the sentiments of the French revolutionary philosophers, and think we should strive for many of their ideals.

I just dont think mobs parading around the heads of bakers helps advance those ideals, let alone get the bread that doesn't exist for their hungry children.




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