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They were to accomplish the purposes of order, morality, and submission to the laws, from the principles of atheism, profligacy, and sedition.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “They were to accomplish the purposes of order, morality, and submission to the laws, from the principles of atheism…”
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Burke critiques the attempt to establish order through immoral principles, highlighting the contradiction.
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