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They were to accomplish the purposes of order, morality, and submission to the laws, from the principles of atheism, profligacy, and sedition.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgThey were to accomplish the purposes of order, morality, and submission to the laws, from the principles of atheism, profligacy, and sedition.
Burke critiques the attempt to establish order through immoral principles, highlighting the contradiction.
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