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Its foundation is laid in Regicide, in Jacobinism, and in Atheism; and it has joined to those principles a body of systematic manners which secures their operation.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgIts foundation is laid in Regicide, in Jacobinism, and in Atheism; and it has joined to those principles a body of systematic manners which secures their operation.
Burke identifies regicide, Jacobinism, and atheism as the bases of the new French government.
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