As things now stand, with everything respectable destroyed without us, and an attempt to destroy within us every principle of respect, one is almost forced to apologize for harboring the common feelings of men.
Burke laments the widespread destruction of traditional values and the suppression of natural human sentiments during the French Revolution.
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