In one section of this book, the author criticizes the "spirit of innovation" that arises "from a selfish temper and confined views"Â—a theme the author would elaborate upon five years later in his letter to William Elliot.
In one section of this book, the author criticizes the "spirit of innovation" that arises "from a selfish temper and confined views"Â—a theme the author would elaborate upon five years later in his letter to William Elliot. In a more famous passage from this book, the author laments that the age of "sophisters, economists, and calculators" has succeeded "the age of chivalry." He also describes the "disasters" that have fallen upon a beautiful (*) monarch, whom he last saw seventeen years ago, when she was only a dauphiness. Prompting Thomas Paine to respond with The Rights of Man, FTP, name this work of conservative political philosophy written a year and a half after the storming of the Bastile, by Edmund Burke.
In one section of this book, the author criticizes the "spirit of innovation" that arises "from a selfish temper and confined views"Â—a theme the author would elaborate upon five years later in his letter to William Elliot.
Reflections on the Revolution in France