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If this principle be denied or evaded, what ground have we left to reason on?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “If this principle be denied or evaded, what ground have we left to reason on?”
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Burke stresses the necessity of acknowledging fundamental principles to maintain rational discourse.
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