I think I can hardly overrate the malignity of the principles of Protestant ascendency, as they affect Ireland,--or of Indianism, as they affect these countries, and as they affect Asia,--or of Jacobinism, as they affect all Europe and the state of human society itself.
Burke critiques the harmful principles of Protestant ascendency and their broader implications for society.
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