Here the principle of contribution, as taken between man and man, is reprobated as null, and destructive to equality,--and as pernicious, too, because it leads to the establishment of an aristocracy of the rich.
Burke condemns the principle of contribution between individuals as harmful to equality.
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Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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