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But this establishment has the grand radical fault, the original sin, that pervades and perverts all our establishments: the apparatus is not fitted to the object, nor the workmen to the work.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “But this establishment has the grand radical fault, the original sin, that pervades and perverts all our establishments…”
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Burke identifies a fundamental flaw in the system where the structure and personnel do not align with their intended purpose.
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