Paine writes against the lucrative business of war, yet the reason he wrote not only this book but also Common Sense is to encourage people of certain nations to rise up and, if necessary, start a war if not a civil war. He is unable to accept the consequences or carry out his incitement to revolutions. In the French Revolution many heinous acts occurred, one in particular was the lynching of the executioners of Foulon and Bertier. Paine states: “These outrages were not the effect of the principles of the Revolution, but of the degraded mind which existed before the Revolution, and which the Revolution is destined to reform.” (p. 58-59) His ideal revolution has taken an ugly and realistic turn, yet he dismisses it by blaming the previous government, instead of thinking like Hume and asking whether the cure is really better than the disease. Throughout the piece Paine talks about war and revolutions with a disconnection between the two things, war is always bad and a business for governments but he supports revolutions, at least Eurocentric ones. It doesn't say revolution is a war, even if it is a people's war, yet it can be just as bad as government-run wars. Paine writes against the lucrative business of war, but the reason he wrote not only this book but Common Sense is to encourage the people of some nations to rise up and, if necessary, start a war if not a civil war. He is unable to accept the consequences or carry out his incitement to revolutions. In the French Revolution many heinous acts occurred, one in particular was the lynching of the executioners of Foulon and Bertier. Paine states: “These outrages were not the effect of the principles of the Revolution, but of the degraded mind which existed in the midst of the paper… fully thought out would have rendered his argument perhaps invalid.” as fiery but would be more enlightened. It's true that you never know how something will turn out, but people need to know not only that they are being mistreated by a government but also the effects of the revolution that persisting is the best thing for them. another fact related to the first part of Thomas Paine's “Rights of Man” that is disconcerting. In an essay defending the principles and events of the French Revolution, it is notable that Paine speaks only of one of France's revolutionary leaders, the Marquis de Lafayette. Paine does not mention any of the other leaders or even other revolutionary writers, but he mentions Lafayette in at least four other sections of Part One. The Marquis established a liberal government in France and ignored the radicals,