To destroy any power growing wild from the rank productive force of the human mind is almost tantamount, in the moral world, to the destruction of the apparently active properties of bodies in the material.
In his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke warns against the destructive consequences of eradicating natural social forces.
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