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Have we not produced it ready-made and ready-armed, mature in its birth, a perfect goddess of wisdom and of war, hammered by our blacksmith midwives out of the brain of Jupiter himself?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Have we not produced it ready-made and ready-armed, mature in its birth, a perfect goddess of wisdom and of war…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke metaphorically describes the creation of a powerful political entity as if it were a goddess born from divine craftsmanship.
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