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History, 08.06.2020 10:57, capricorn0115

Okay so basically i have to write about "common sense" by Thomas paine, however, I don't understand the text itself. i know the main points discussed, but, I just don't know how to translate a certain part. (I need this by Monday so pls) But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is, the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth enquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind…

To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession; and as the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and an imposition on posterity [future generations]. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual [never ending] preference to all others for ever, and though himself might deserve some decent degree of honors of his contemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them. One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind a donkey for a lion.

thats the part. someone pls translate it lol ty

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