But this sort of virtual representation cannot have a long or sure existence, if it has not a substratum in the actual.
Edmund Burke: “But this sort of virtual representation cannot have a long or sure existence, if it has not a substratum in the actual.”
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Burke warns that virtual representation cannot endure without a foundation in actual representation.
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