 The fact he uses numbers to get that point across is also not surprising to me. Paine, first of all, had a great head for numbers. He was an excise man, which is a fancy word for tax collector, for several years while he was living in England. And that may also have given him some degree of privileged information, though I wouldn't want to over-egg that. And when he writes Common Sense, as you're probably well aware, the back...