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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Edmund Burke. your imaginations would have realized in them a standard of virtue and wisdom, beyond the vulgar practice of the hour; and you would have risen with the example to whose imitation you aspired. Respecting your forefathers ...
Edmund Burke. your imaginations would have realized in them a standard of virtue and wisdom, beyond the vulgar practice of the hour; and you would have risen with the example to whose imitation you aspired. Respecting your forefathers ...
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... virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and to recruit that nobility ; you would have had a pro- tected , satisfied , laborious , and obedient people , taught to seek and to recognize the ...
... virtue , not to overlay it ; you would have had a liberal order of commons , to emulate and to recruit that nobility ; you would have had a pro- tected , satisfied , laborious , and obedient people , taught to seek and to recognize the ...
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... virtue and wis- dom of a whole people collected into a focus, would pause and hesitate in condemning things even of the very worst aspect. Instead of blameable, they would appear only mysterious. But no name, no power, no function, no ...
... virtue and wis- dom of a whole people collected into a focus, would pause and hesitate in condemning things even of the very worst aspect. Instead of blameable, they would appear only mysterious. But no name, no power, no function, no ...
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... virtue , they should be actuated by sinister ambition and a lust of meretricious glory , then the feeble part of the Assembly , to whom at first they conform , becomes in its turn the dupe and instrument of their designs . In this ...
... virtue , they should be actuated by sinister ambition and a lust of meretricious glory , then the feeble part of the Assembly , to whom at first they conform , becomes in its turn the dupe and instrument of their designs . In this ...
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... virtues of such men were to be taken as a balance to their crimes ; but they were some corrective to their effects . Such ... virtue , all the rewards , all the dis- tinctions , remained . But your present confusion , like a palsy , has ...
... virtues of such men were to be taken as a balance to their crimes ; but they were some corrective to their effects . Such ... virtue , all the rewards , all the dis- tinctions , remained . But your present confusion , like a palsy , has ...
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