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Everything we hear from them is new, and, to use a phrase of their own, revolutionary; everything supposes a total revolution in all the principles of reason, prudence, and moral feeling.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke notes the radical and revolutionary nature of the ideas being presented by the Regicides.
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