The ground of some of these arguments is horrid and ridiculous to all rational ears; but to the politicians of metaphysics, who have opened schools for sophistry, and made establishments for anarchy, it is solid and conclusive.
Burke dismisses the philosophical arguments of the French revolutionaries as absurd to rational minds, yet foundational for their destructive policies.
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Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.
The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.
But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.
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