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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... mankind . Abstractedly speaking , government , as well as liberty , is good ; yet could I , in common sense , ten years ago , have felic- itated France on her enjoyment of a government ( for she then had a government ) without enquiry ...
... mankind . Abstractedly speaking , government , as well as liberty , is good ; yet could I , in common sense , ten years ago , have felic- itated France on her enjoyment of a government ( for she then had a government ) without enquiry ...
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... mankind. This pulpit style, revived after so long a discontinuance, had to me the air of novelty, and of a novelty not wholly without dan- ger. I do not charge this danger equally to every part of the dis- course. The hint given to a ...
... mankind. This pulpit style, revived after so long a discontinuance, had to me the air of novelty, and of a novelty not wholly without dan- ger. I do not charge this danger equally to every part of the dis- course. The hint given to a ...
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... mankind , and not in that monstrous fiction , which , by inspiring false ideas and vain expectations into men destined to travel in the obscure walk of laborious life , serves only to aggravate and imbitter that real inequality , which ...
... mankind , and not in that monstrous fiction , which , by inspiring false ideas and vain expectations into men destined to travel in the obscure walk of laborious life , serves only to aggravate and imbitter that real inequality , which ...
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... mankind. Remember that your parliament of Paris told your king, that in calling the states together, he had nothing to fear but the prodi- gal excess of their zeal in providing for the support of the throne. It is right that these men ...
... mankind. Remember that your parliament of Paris told your king, that in calling the states together, he had nothing to fear but the prodi- gal excess of their zeal in providing for the support of the throne. It is right that these men ...
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... mankind , which dis- appeared and hid themselves in the earth from whence they came , when the principle of property , whose creatures and rep- resentatives they are , was systematically subverted . Were all these dreadful things ...
... mankind , which dis- appeared and hid themselves in the earth from whence they came , when the principle of property , whose creatures and rep- resentatives they are , was systematically subverted . Were all these dreadful things ...
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