The british east india company
Thomas Hobbes wrote that a person's most basic needed is science
Paine connected independence with common dissenting Protestant beliefs as a means to present a distinctly American political identity and structured Common Sense as if it were a sermon. Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."
They did not want the british to become too strong, whoever conquered ethiopia would have the upper hand
