On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
Everything seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity and ferocity, and of all sorts of crimes jumbled together with all sorts of follies.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Everything seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity and ferocity, and of all sorts of crimes jumbled together…”
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Describing the French Revolution, he portrays it as a bewildering mix of contradictory and destructive elements.
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