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Edmund Burke: If the present establishment should fall, it is this religion which will triumph in Ireland and in England, as it has…

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If the present establishment should fall, it is this religion which will triumph in Ireland and in England, as it has triumphed in France.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke predicts that if the current establishment collapses, a specific religion will prevail.

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