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...al»tract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, mil of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. BURKE : Reflections on the Revolution...

...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to every thing they want every thing. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the...

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...abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide...society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the...

...to be open, — but not indifferently to every man. BURKE: Reflections on the Rtvolution in France. l eternity. Such considerations, which every one should...cherish in his thoughts, will banish from us all '.hat BURKE : Reflections on the Revolution in France. The moment you abate anything from the full rights...

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...liberty." Abstract propositions about government may no doubt have a certain value ; but, after all, government is "a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." It must be confessed that the supply of wisdom has not always been equal to the demand, but it may...

...liberty." Abstract propositions about government may no doubt have a certain value ; but, after all, government is ''a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." It must be confessed that the supply of wisdom has not always been equal to the demand, but it may...

...with greater efficiency and economy. We begin to see more clearly the truth of Bnrke's remark, that ' government is a contrivance of human wisdom, to provide for human wants,' and that ' men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.' It is dawning...