On the whole, therefore, I lay it down as a certainty, that in the Jacobins no change of mind is to be expected, and that no others in the territory of France have an independent and deliberative existence.
Burke asserts that the Jacobins are unlikely to change their views, highlighting the lack of independent thought in France.
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