...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...and by the concern which each individual may find . . . his own speculations, or can spare them from his own private interests."61 Burke's tightly wrapped...

...it, but he was certainly right about some of the revolutionaries— the ones who launched the Terror: "In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows."2 But isn't terror sometimes a more modest strategy, aimed only at changing the policy of...

...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...In the groves of their academy, at the end of every visto, you see nothing but the gallows. Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of...

...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...In the groves of their academy, at the end of every visto, you see nothing but the gallows. Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of...

...Origins of Modern Cnstitutionalism (New York: Harper & Bros. 1949), 42. 10. In such a system, he said, "laws are to be supported only by their own terrors,...of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows." Reflections on the Revolution in France, in The Works of Edmund Burke (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.,...

...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance, laws are to be supported only by their own terrours, and by the concern, which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations,...