"Whatever wisdom constituently is, it is like a seedless plant; it may be reared when it appears, but it cannot be voluntarily produced."
Rights of man. Part the second. Combining Principle and Practice. 
<u>The Thomas Paine Reader</u>, ed. Michael Foot and Isaac Kramnick (New York: Penguin Books, 1987). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CB127177205&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;