The worst of the matter is this: you are partly leading, partly driving into Jacobinism that description of your people whose religious principles, church polity, and habitual discipline might make them an invincible dike against that inundation.
Burke warns that certain actions may lead a group of people towards radicalism, despite their potential for stability.
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