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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... concerning several material points in your late transactions. You imagined, when you wrote last, that I might possibly be reckoned among the approvers of certain proceedings in France, from the solemn public seal of sanction they have ...
... concerning several material points in your late transactions. You imagined, when you wrote last, that I might possibly be reckoned among the approvers of certain proceedings in France, from the solemn public seal of sanction they have ...
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... concerning private management, I shall speak of nothing as of a certainty, but what is public. For one, I should be sorry to be thought, directly or indi- rectly, concerned in their proceedings. I certainly take my full share, along ...
... concerning private management, I shall speak of nothing as of a certainty, but what is public. For one, I should be sorry to be thought, directly or indi- rectly, concerned in their proceedings. I certainly take my full share, along ...
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... concerning the doctrine which may be taught in them . His zeal is of a curious character . It is not for the propagation of his own opinions , but of any opinions . It is not for the diffusion of truth , but for the spreading of ...
... concerning the doctrine which may be taught in them . His zeal is of a curious character . It is not for the propagation of his own opinions , but of any opinions . It is not for the diffusion of truth , but for the spreading of ...
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... concerning the principle of a right in the people to choose , which right is directly maintained , and tenaciously adhered to . All the oblique insinuations concerning election bottom in this proposition , and are referable to it . Lest ...
... concerning the principle of a right in the people to choose , which right is directly maintained , and tenaciously adhered to . All the oblique insinuations concerning election bottom in this proposition , and are referable to it . Lest ...
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... concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy. If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which ...
... concerning the king's hereditary right to the crown does not prejudice one that is rational, and bottomed upon solid principles of law and policy. If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which ...
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