The next cause which renders this evil incurable is the jobs which have grown out of it, and which, in spite of all precautions, would grow out of such things even under governments far more potent than the feeble authority of the Pope.
Burke points out that systemic issues lead to persistent problems, even in strong governments, emphasizing the challenges of governance.
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The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.
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