Reflections on the Revolution in FranceAnchor Press/Doubleday, 1973 - 515 Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. A classic of political science and a cornerstone of modern conservative thought, it articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values that resonates with modern readers. |
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... wisdom . ” Admitting that Government is a contrivance of human wisdom , it must necessarily follow , that hereditary succes- sion , and hereditary rights ( as they are called ) , can make no part of it , because it is impossible to make ...
... wisdom . ” Admitting that Government is a contrivance of human wisdom , it must necessarily follow , that hereditary succes- sion , and hereditary rights ( as they are called ) , can make no part of it , because it is impossible to make ...
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... wisdom , but a monopoly of wisdom . He puts the nation as fools on one side , and places his government of wisdom , all wise men of Gotham , on the other side ; and he then pro- claims , and says , that “ men have a RIGHT that their ...
... wisdom , but a monopoly of wisdom . He puts the nation as fools on one side , and places his government of wisdom , all wise men of Gotham , on the other side ; and he then pro- claims , and says , that “ men have a RIGHT that their ...
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... wisdom , " I might ask him if wisdom was at such a low ebb in England , that it was become necessary to import it from Holland and from Hanover ? But I will do the country the justice to say , that was not the case ; and even if it was ...
... wisdom , " I might ask him if wisdom was at such a low ebb in England , that it was become necessary to import it from Holland and from Hanover ? But I will do the country the justice to say , that was not the case ; and even if it was ...
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