by John G Evans

Created on: October 09, 2009   Last Updated: September 18, 2010

An ideological philosophy based on common truths such as The "power of the pen" consummated with an awareness that "An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot," can drive an uneducated man forward despite his fallen human condition and bring hope to the common man, a secuatious nation as well as the entirety of mankind. "Every person of learning is finally his own teacher," states Thomas Paine, a common man of limited education but a magnanimous desire in his heart to learn and discover the many hidden truths that well up inside all of us for truth comes from within a dwelling place of He whom is the eternal Law of Nature.

Even during the point of defeat the American Continental Army found courage and strength through one of Thomas Paine's series of pamphlets of ideological and philosophical idea of thought, "The American Crisis" whereas originated one of Paine's prolific quotes,"These are the times that try men's souls."

The Americans and the French lay claim to Thomas Paine as being the true father and philosopher of the revolution for it was the understanding the common man acquired through Paine's "Common Sense" that led both simultaneous Revolutions to victory. Paine also believed his purpose to be of a Divine calling. He believed and stated that, "Every religion is good that teaches man to be good." He also felt quite strongly that even though one man may make a difference in a matter of conflict that no man has the right to govern another. His radical ideology was that all nations should work together for the harmonious balance of all nations.

Thomas Paine's powerful passion to be free, not only as an individual but for the nations of the world as well, and his contention towards all types of injustice fueled his writings and created in American history a man to be regarded as one of the great thinkers of all time. Another statement of Paine's was a deeply profound passion for his appointed calling to being a life he felt he was best suited for was the life of a thinker of ideas. This is what drove him to write "Common Sense" and proceed onward with a series of essays and exegesis works of the eternal birth of freedom in every human life's soul's descriptive characteristic of truth.

Thomas Jefferson gave rise to Paine's intelligent comprehension as a writer by stating,"No writer has exceeded Paine in ease and familiarity of style, in perspicuity of expression, happiness of elucidation, and in simple and unassuming language."

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