The short space of the French Revolution made the habit of thinking in terms of progress an essential part of our intellectual inheritance; and where the Burkian school proclaims how exceptional progress has been in history, we take that as proof of the ease with which essential habit may be acquired.
Laski notes that the French Revolution instilled a progressive mindset that contrasts with Burke's view of historical exceptionalism.
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