On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman, a woman is but an animal,--and an animal not of the highest order.
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Edmund Burke
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From his critique of the French Revolution, this passage describes the reductionist view of human dignity under revolutionary philosophy.
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