...insaniat — he is metaphysically mad." In his Reflections on the Revolution he vehemently insists that "circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for...distinguishing colour and discriminating effect." The Greek who cared for the State as if it were himself found a kindred soul in the great Irishman. What...

...for Ruanda-Urundi, then for Belgian Congo. But here we may recall Burke's saying that "Circumstances give, in reality, to every political principle its...render every civil and political scheme beneficial or obnoxious to mankind." Any such theory of general balkanization, by the creation of many new sovereign...

...metaphysical abstract. Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind." Liberty then, in the abstract is good, but there are practical considerations which render it beneficial...

...political questions in the abstract, stripped of every relation and ramification. They do not see that "Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind." ~M Although politics is a prudential science, the natural-law tradition excludes certain possibilities...

...even assuming the justice and wisdom of our inclusions, which I do not.3 "Circumstances," wrote Burke, "(which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme...

...His work is characterized by empirical rigor. Bnrke's words again come to mind : "Circumstances . . . give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing...political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind." Once again from the same source: "I must see with my own eyes, I must, in a manner, touch with my own...

...simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...political principle its distinguishing colour, and • The Revolution Society. discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and...

...the sovereignty of prudence is in the power of circumstances to alter every regularity and principle. "Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect."26 Burke emphasizes that the prudence he speaks of is a "moral prudence"...

...practice of viewing an object "as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which...reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect." Even Toynbee, the magician of historical analogy, has remarked that...

...deduced from the collective experience of the ages. The foundation of his thought is a recognition that "circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for...its distinguishing colour and discriminating effect" (Reflections 90). In A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791) he asserts, "I must see with...