...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 is but a part, and by no means the greatest part, of...

...demonstration" in politics is "the most fallacious of all sophistry," and his belief that "politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature" and to history and moral and legal principles, all these grand themes that run through almost everything...

...reasonings as when they seem to be most curious, exact, and conclusive (12). He further noted, politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part (13). Burke therefore, believed that human reason is inherently limited and the possibility of error...

...suitable either to man's nature or to the quality of his affairs...."1 Elsewhere he wrote, "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."2 Burke was a political thinker who delivered...

...Revolufion in France (1910/1964: 84), "Politics ought to be adjusted, nnt to human reatonings, but 10 human nature, of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest pan." And alto: "We are afraid CO put men to live and ttade each on his own stock of reason; because...

...given to it, as a species it always acts right. Politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasoning, but to human nature, of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part. In particular, the reasoning of the revolutionaries rested on abstract theories, and, "one sure symptom...

...foundations of the best governments that have ever been constituted by human wisdom. . . . Politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part. . . ,49 Grenville's passion for projects and power was not an isolated disease. George Ill's later...

...Works, VII, 324 (Preface to William Burke's Translation of Brissot's Address to his Constituents). nature: of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part', he had stated as early as I769. 18 This meant that apparently 'irrational' aspects of men's behaviour...

...stripped of this right, every principle of unity and subordination in the empire was gone forever. Whether all this can be reconciled in legal speculation,...reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.5 That the colonists' generalized arguments did go against Parliament's "whole legislative right"...

...the philosophes. When Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France declared that 'politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but...is but a part, and by no means the greatest part', he was declaring himself on the side of those who reacted against the intellectualism of the century,...