Pamphlet · A 1776 town · 1776
The American Crisis
91Sit with it.Not an average of critics. Eight questions, one house.
Written to be read to men who were about to cross a river in the dark.
The glance
Industry is the thin one.
This phone
Set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
After the credits
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
The first Crisis paper opens on the soul, not on tactics. A summer soldier and a sunshine patriot will leave when the weather turns. Paine is talking to men who are cold and losing.
A thirteen-year-old was not in the boat. He could still hear the sentence if he lived near a camp. The score is for the paper, not for the battle.
Folio
Keep The American Crisis in the record.
The date, your number, and one sentence.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
The eight
Industry
9/10
It is a page for a camp, not a treatise. The work is the sentence.
Household
9/10
Home is what the summer soldier goes back to. The piece does not sit at a table.
Piety
9/10
Soul is the word he uses. The test is whether a man stays when it costs.
Courage
10/10
He names the man who shrinks, and he says it to soldiers.
Republic
9/10
A country is what you do not desert in December.
Temperance
9/10
Panic is the appetite he is writing against.
Truth
9/10
The sunshine patriot is a true name for a real desertion.
Stewardship
9/10
Washington had it read to the troops. It was meant to be kept for the worst night.
Live historicallyRead the first paragraph. Ask who, in your own week, stays only while it is easy.