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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... choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the consti- tution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family ...
... choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the consti- tution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family ...
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... choice, but of necessity; they make all change a subject of compromise, which naturally begets moderation; they produce temperaments, preventing the sore evil of harsh, crude, unqualified reformations; and rendering all the headlong ...
... choice, but of necessity; they make all change a subject of compromise, which naturally begets moderation; they produce temperaments, preventing the sore evil of harsh, crude, unqualified reformations; and rendering all the headlong ...
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... choice, this fond election of evil, would appear perfectly unaccountable, if we did not consider the composition of ... choice; but their choice confers neither the one nor the other on those upon whom they lay their ordaining hands ...
... choice, this fond election of evil, would appear perfectly unaccountable, if we did not consider the composition of ... choice; but their choice confers neither the one nor the other on those upon whom they lay their ordaining hands ...
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... choice. A government of five hundred coun- try attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight and forty mil- lions; nor is it the better for being guided by a dozen of persons ...
... choice. A government of five hundred coun- try attornies and obscure curates is not good for twenty-four millions of men, though it were chosen by eight and forty mil- lions; nor is it the better for being guided by a dozen of persons ...
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... choice you have made, or the success which has attended your endeav- ours. I can as little recommend to any other nation a conduct grounded on such principles, and productive of such effects. That I must leave to those who can see ...
... choice you have made, or the success which has attended your endeav- ours. I can as little recommend to any other nation a conduct grounded on such principles, and productive of such effects. That I must leave to those who can see ...
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