"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of. not hinging a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. but tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. "
-Thomas Paine in Common Sense
Philadelphia, PA
Feb 14, 1776
