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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... England have acquired three fundamental rights , all which , with him , compose one system , and lie together in one short sentence ; namely , that we have acquired a right 1. " To choose our own governors . >> 2. " To cashier them for ...
... England have acquired three fundamental rights , all which , with him , compose one system , and lie together in one short sentence ; namely , that we have acquired a right 1. " To choose our own governors . >> 2. " To cashier them for ...
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... England about forty years before, and the late French Revolution, so much before their eyes, and in their hearts, that they are constantly confounding all the three together. It is nec- essary that we should separate what they confound ...
... England about forty years before, and the late French Revolution, so much before their eyes, and in their hearts, that they are constantly confounding all the three together. It is nec- essary that we should separate what they confound ...
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... England found itself without a king . At both those periods the nation had lost the bond of union in their antient edifice ; they did not , however , dissolve the whole fabric . On the contrary , in both cases they regenerated the ...
... England found itself without a king . At both those periods the nation had lost the bond of union in their antient edifice ; they did not , however , dissolve the whole fabric . On the contrary , in both cases they regenerated the ...
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... England with the blot of a continual usurpation? Do they mean to invalidate, annul, or to call into question, together with the titles of the whole line of our kings, that great body of our statute law which passed under those whom they ...
... England with the blot of a continual usurpation? Do they mean to invalidate, annul, or to call into question, together with the titles of the whole line of our kings, that great body of our statute law which passed under those whom they ...
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... England , before he had done any of those acts which were justly con- strued into an abdication of his crown ? If he was not , much trouble in parliament might have been saved at the period these gentlemen commemorate . But King James ...
... England , before he had done any of those acts which were justly con- strued into an abdication of his crown ? If he was not , much trouble in parliament might have been saved at the period these gentlemen commemorate . But King James ...
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