Reflections on the Revolution in FranceCourier Corporation, 29 sie 2012 - 256 Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. It provoked an enormous reaction, both supportive and critical, with a flood of pamphlets and books (including Thomas Paine's enduring denunciation, The Rights of Man). Endlessly reprinted and studied by countless scholars and other readers, this is a classic of political science and a cornerstone of modern conservative thought. Burke ranked among the era's most eloquent defenders of democracy; however, he also realized the dangers of unchecked liberty and that mob rule is in no way better than the reign of a king or dictator. His lucid and passionate manifesto, written in the form of letters, employs examples from the aftermath of the French Revolution to demonstrate the superiority of gradual political change over outright anti-authoritarian revolt. A believer in practicality rather than abstract theorizing, Burke articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values that continues to resonate with twenty-first century readers. |
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... common judgment, or the least degree of information, speak a word in praise of the greater part of the publications circulated by that society; nor have their proceed- ings been accounted, except by some of themselves, as of any serious ...
... common judgment, or the least degree of information, speak a word in praise of the greater part of the publications circulated by that society; nor have their proceed- ings been accounted, except by some of themselves, as of any serious ...
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... common sense , ten years ago , have felic- itated France on her enjoyment of a government ( for she then had a government ) without enquiry what the nature of that gov- ernment was , or how it was administered ? Can I now congrat- ulate ...
... common sense , ten years ago , have felic- itated France on her enjoyment of a government ( for she then had a government ) without enquiry what the nature of that gov- ernment was , or how it was administered ? Can I now congrat- ulate ...
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... common with all gov- ernments, so far as opinion is security, is taken away. Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words and ...
... common with all gov- ernments, so far as opinion is security, is taken away. Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words and ...
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... common law; in the new by the statute law, operating on the principles of the common law, not changing the substance, but regulating the mode, and describing the persons. Both these descriptions of law are of the same force, and are ...
... common law; in the new by the statute law, operating on the principles of the common law, not changing the substance, but regulating the mode, and describing the persons. Both these descriptions of law are of the same force, and are ...
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... common with them to dispute as if they were in a conflict with some of those exploded fanatics of slavery, who for- merly maintained, what I believe no creature now maintains, “that the crown is held by divine, hereditary, and ...
... common with them to dispute as if they were in a conflict with some of those exploded fanatics of slavery, who for- merly maintained, what I believe no creature now maintains, “that the crown is held by divine, hereditary, and ...
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