The Druids were eminent above all the philosophic lawgivers of antiquity for their care in impressing the doctrine of the soul's immortality on the minds of their people, as an operative and leading principle.
Burke highlights the Druidic emphasis on the immortality of the soul as a key philosophical principle.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.
They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.
Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.
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