Question

What idea does Paine reference in these lines?

Answer 1

Read the following excerpt from The American Crisis and answer the question.

To see it in our power to make a world happy – to teach mankind the art of being so – to exhibit, on the theatre of the universe a character hitherto unknown – and to have, as it were, a new creation intrusted to our hands, are honors that command reflection, and can neither be too highly estimated, nor too gratefully received

Answer 2

We would need to know the lines (: