...a. from dissections, Harvey: 1 ancestors: democracy makes every man forget his a., Tocqueville: 18 people will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their a.. Burke, Edmund: 7 ancient: a. religion part of social order which embraces gods and men alike, Smith,...

...yet escape'.' If we are to answer these questions, we need to turn to our past. As Burke remarked, 'People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors' ]l973: 45]. Earlier historians of ideas attempted to trace the root-system of the modern mentalite....

...those who are to be born. An almost equally celebrated line in Burke, also from the Reflections, is: 'People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.' Clearly, from Burke's point of view, the present is not free, as so much rationalist thought had been...

...present unknowingly forswore the future as well. There was truth in Burke's observation that "[pjeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." 54 But Tocqueville captured this truth better. In a well-known passage, Democracy in America expresses...

...British constitutional history. For when comparing the Glorious Revolution with 1789, Burke writes that "the people of England well know that the idea of...It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires."57 This is, so to speak, Burkean prescription applied to the constitution. Just as infringements...

...Burke was still admonishing his contemporaries to respect "the wisdom of ages," reminding them that "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors," and that "the sole authority" of constitutional law "is that it has existed time out of mind." Just...

...treasure to descendants." — Plato "Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors." — Emerson "Men will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." — Edmund Burke "Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name." — Lucan "It is indeed...

...move. Political prudence, according to Burke, requires political sensitivity to history. As he put it, "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."4 British political culture is a reflection in part of this broad political philosophy....

...reflection, and above it." In his judgment, a spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward...idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of transmission; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but...

...2001: 83-97. Ancestral Virtues and Vices Cicero on Nature, Nurture and Presentation SUSAN TREGGIARI People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. (Burke, Rejections cm the Revolution in France) The Roman ruling class did both these things, often...