Their great problem is to find a substitute for all the principles which hitherto have been employed to regulate the human will and action.
Edmund Burke: “Their great problem is to find a substitute for all the principles which hitherto have been employed to regulate the…”
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Burke discusses the challenge of finding new principles to guide human behavior and governance.
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