...and the importance of history in a political system. He was aware of the need for change and reform: 'a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation'. However, as an analyst of social and political change, his understanding of the historical process...

...meaningful change is only possible within the bounds of existing institutions. Edmund Burke wrote, "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."14 Change is necessary to conserve the essence of society's traditions and foundations,...

...as the sober language of Rose's Letter from the North of Italy indicates in an appendix to the text: 'A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation,' wrote another classic historian. The words are those of Burke in the Reflections on the Revolution...

...expressed in the form of "laws." Burke's famous saying from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation," is sometimes quoted as a warning to oppressive or stagnating regimes: If you don't learn to improve...

...Press, 1987), 194, 200-5. 109. Burke sounds this note very early in Reflections, when he writes that "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." Ten pages later, he continues, "The very idea of the fabrication of a new government, is enough to...

...never give up their liberties but under some delusion. 1772 Reflections on the Remlution in France RE.M. 1879-1970 3574 Abinger Harvest (Public schoolboys) go forth into a world tha 1773 Reflections on the Revolution in France Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a...

...mechanisms by which the continuum, whether of history or of the constitution, is sustained, because "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation" (23). The English revolution of 1688 is accordingly represented not as an interruption of the process...

...Research (lCPSR #9553). PART ONE Theoretical Perspective Chapter 1 ADAPTAT1ON 1N HUMAN COMMUN1T1ES A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. — Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France One who is late to reform will be punished...

...it return exactly to the same place. Burke, the Father of articulate Conservatism, recognised that "a state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."10 Merely standing still proves self-destructive in the end. In particular, in order...

...around the corner. Burke himself insists that all states require endless tinkering, continual reform: "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."3 Nor is this vision of tradition wrapped up with any mystified reverence for authority....