...notwithstanding, a new character and may have the advantage of change without the imputation of inconstancy.40 Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, . . . wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation...

...nation; therefore, the state is not required to generate substantive principles of social justice. "Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...to a permanent body composed of transitory parts," wrote Burke. "Wherin, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious...

...lives. The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of providence are handed down to us, rine admitteth no other demonstration. PART 1 OF MAN...dependence upon one another. Singly, they are every molding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never...

...therefore the state - He willed its connection with the source and archetype of all perfection.' Wherefore 'our political system is placed in a just correspondence...decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ... by ... a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race.'*1...

...(1790), which appropriates traditional family order to prove the naturalness of hereditary monarchy: Our political system is placed in a just correspondence...to a permanent body composed of transitory parts. ... By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided not by the...

...another that, so to speak, attracts obedience: that of the body politic. "Our political system ... [has] the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts," Burke writes (R, p. 120). Yet we shall see that this "double" does not invalidate or contradict the...

...of writing does not get in the way of 'Burkean' organic adaptation: Our ]xilitical system is plared in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order...world and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanem hody compnsed of tratistlory pans, whrrein. hi the dispnsition of a smpendous wisdom, moulding...

...links with an earlier passage of the Reflections, which describes the political system of Britain as "placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world"; but such deference to the metaphor of the Divine Corporation is uncharacteristic of Burke. On the uses...

...confined views" (119). "Our political system [inasmuch as it is historically founded and developed] is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world." What should we conclude? That all the French have made of their revolution is against the spirit of...

...2 vols. (London, 1876), 2:230-48. 3 Burke, Works, U. 307: Our political system is placed in a just symmetry with the order of the world, and with the...of existence decreed to a permanent body composed by transitory parts; wherein, by the dispensation of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great...