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These, which were for Burke merely the accidental excrescences of a noble ideal, were for them its inner essence; and where they could not reform they were willing to destroy.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski highlights the difference in perspective between Burke and those who sought to reform or destroy the existing system.
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