The birth-day of a new world is at hand." 4 Paine's booklet had a dramatic impact on moving public opinion to support of independence. A situation, similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. Paine wrote: "We have boasted the protection of Great Britain, without considering that her motive was interest not attachment that she did not protect us from our enemies on our account, but from her enemies on her own account, from those who had no quarrel with us on any other account, and who will always be our enemies on the same account." 3 In February in a revised version of his phenomenally popular pamphlet published in February, Paine wrote: "We have it in our power to begin the world over again. More and more Americans realized that relations with the mother country had deteriorated to the point of separation and divorce. In early 1776 the American forces impelling dissolution of the bonds with England accelerated - especially after publication of English immigrant Thomas Paine's Common Sense on January 6. Declaration author Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams in 1821: "The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them." 2 Long after the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, its impact was felt around the world. Historian Crane Brinton wrote: "In America hardly a colony escaped some form of rioting in the period between the Stamp Act and Lexington, and all of them saw a steady growth of agitation through merchants' committees, correspondence committees, Sons of Liberty, and similar groups." 1 The impact of the Declaration would be a far longer lasting. The Declaration of Independence was a long time coming for its supporters in America. Preparations for the Declaration of Independence
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