He denied that the present scheme of things in France did at all deserve the respectable name of a republic: he had therefore no comparison between monarchies and republics to make.--That what was done in France was a wild attempt to methodize anarchy, to perpetuate and fix disorder.
Burke criticizes the French Revolution, describing it as an attempt to impose order on chaos.
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We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.
Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.
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