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Edmund Burke: “Knowledge, which in the two last centuries either did not exist at all, or existed solidly on right principles and in…”

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Knowledge, which in the two last centuries either did not exist at all, or existed solidly on right principles and in chosen hands, was now diffused, weakened, and perverted.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke observes the dilution and distortion of knowledge over time.

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