Explain who the old man calls mother and what he calls “my mother’s gate”

Mother's gate = Mother´s heart.

Explanation: There are a several amount of people who thinks that the heart is the key to understand our whole body, and all that implies. Mind, soul, spirit, bodyand the heart is the door that connects all. If you are capable of understand how the heart works, then everything will be possible.

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."

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