In the following pages I offer nothing more
than simple facts, plain arguments, and
common sense; and have no other
Preliminaries to settle with the reader, than
that he will divest himself of prejudice and
prepossession, and suffer his resason and his
feelings to determine for themselves; that he
will put ON, or rather he will not put OFF the
true character of a man, and generously
enlarge his views beyond the present day.
-Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Based on the text what was Paine’s purpose