"I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, the same connection is necessary
towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect.
Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well
assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have
meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent
for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true; for!
answer roundly that America would have flourished as much, and probably
much more, had no European power taken any notice of her. The
commerce by which she hath enriched herself are the necessaries of life,
and will always have a market while eating is the custom of Europe." What
rhetorical device does the author use here?
O Analogy
O Aphophasis
O Metonymy
O simile