On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
By their violent haste, and their defiance of the process of Nature, they are delivered over blindly to every projector and adventurer, to every alchemist and empiric.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke condemns the French revolutionaries' radical haste, arguing it leaves them vulnerable to unproven and dangerous schemes.
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