...place of universal reason." Oeuvres, p. 213. Burke wrote in the same sense when he said: "Politics ought, to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part." Works, voL I, p. 335. James Wilson, no less truly, said: "The laws, which God has given us, are strictly...

...See also the passages collected in Buckle, History of Civilization in England, chap. vn : " Politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part." "Observations on a late state of the Nation," Burke's Works, vol. I, p. 113: "Hence the distinction...

...gives the ply to his convictions. He is already sure that politics are not a science ; and that they ' ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.' Piety, the reverence for the past, the sense of an inherited social bond, must also be taken into account...

...axioms which conflicted with those of Bentham. "Politics ought to be adjusted not to human feelings but to human nature, of which the reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part." Man is "by his constitution a religious animal." "The individual is foolish but the species is wise,...

...he permitted himself certain fundamental) axioms which conflicted with those of BenthamJ " Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to...is but a part and by no means the greatest part." 82 Man is " by his constitution a religious animal." 83 " The individual is foolish but the species...

...of occasional pamphlets and flying sheets," he drove straight at his favourite point, that "politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature." The phrases went off like crackers — "The prayers of politicians may sometimes be sincere," and "A...

...(Bohn's Ed.) i 476. "Ibid. "Ibid. 477; cp. "the Present State of the Nation," Works i 280, "politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part." sible for that government is as obvious as it was in the sixteenth century.59 In these latter days...

...foundations of the best governments that have ever been constituted by human wisdom. . . . Politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part " Grenville's passion for projects and power was not an isolated disease. George Ill's later ministers,...

...displeased are quite different things. It was Burke, the same conservative who said that "politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature: of which reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part," who also said that the people must "never...

...France, speak with renewed meaning: Burke stated that if the state is to achieve its ends it should be adjusted, "not to human reasonings, but to human nature; of which reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part." I would only revise Burke so that rationality...