Our scheme ought to be such as to have in it a succession of measures: else it is impossible to secure anything like a regular attendance; opposition will otherwise always carry a disreputable air; neither will it be possible, without that attendance, to persuade the people that we are in earnest.
Burke stresses the need for a series of coordinated measures to ensure effective political engagement and public persuasion.
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