Common Sense

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.

用一句话清晰区分了社会与政府——"社会因需要而生，政府因邪恶而生"；短句、直接、无学术术语，故清晰度为 95。

All men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever.

对君主制和世袭制的批判符合启蒙思想（天赋人权、平等）；但对英国宪制的描述有简化（忽略了议会制的制衡机制），故准确性为 88。

Of the Origin and Design of Government... Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession... Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs... Of the Present Ability of America.

从理论（政府起源）到批判（君主制）到实践（美国现状）到行动（独立能力），层层递进，故结构为 88。

Let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest... In this state of natural liberty, society will be their first thought.

用小岛定居者的思想实验说明政府起源——具体、可理解、反驳了"政府神授"的观点，故例证为 90。

Every thing that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART.

直接影响了美国独立运动（1776 年售出 50 万册）；提供了具体的政治行动指南（脱离英国、建立共和国），故实用性为 94。

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

政府"必要恶"的洞察（政府是因人性缺陷而必要的恶）是重要的政治理论贡献；但缺乏对民主制度内在张力（多数暴政）的深入分析，故深度为 82。

We have it in our power to begin the world over again. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now.

政府合法性、个人权利、反抗暴政的讨论依然是当代政治辩论的核心；但部分历史语境（如对英王的具体指控）已过时，故时效性为 88。

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.

简洁、有力、富有感染力；"我们有能力重新开始世界"等段落兼具理论深度与文学美感，故文笔为 92。

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars.

Paine 引用圣经、英国历史、当代观察，但缺乏系统的学术引用体系；Gutenberg 版无现代学术注释，故出处透明度为 75。