Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.
Burke criticizes the French revolutionaries' belief in their own superior enlightenment, contrasting it with the English tradition of acknowledging human fallibility.
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