The geometricians and the chemists bring, the one from the dry bones of their diagrams, and the other from the soot of their furnaces, dispositions that make them worse than indifferent about those feelings and habitudes which are the supports of the moral world.
Burke criticizes scientists for being indifferent to the moral implications of their work, which can harm humanity.
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Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
As he is not to obey us, but we are to obey the law in him, our Constitution has made no sort of provision towards rendering him, as a servant, in any degree responsible.
The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.
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