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Edmund Burke: Why, neither more nor less than this,--that the moral sentiments of some few amongst them do put some check on their…

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Why, neither more nor less than this,--that the moral sentiments of some few amongst them do put some check on their savage theories.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke suggests that moral sentiments can act as a check against extreme theories.

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