October 22, 2008


Feel like spending a little time in the 18th century?

Filed under: Conservatism,History
By Michael (Email) @ 6:14 pm

Earlier this month Gertrude Himmelfarb gave a lecture at AEI on Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France.  Audio and video are now available here.


One Response to “Feel like spending a little time in the 18th century?”

  1. “On the scheme of this barbarous 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 terrors, and by the concern, which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or even spare to them from his own private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.”

    Burke saw it all at the very birth of totalitarianism.

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