“ Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
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| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | ability |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
Context
“Rousseau alive and in one of his lucid intervals, he would be shocked at
the practical frenzy of his scholars, who in their paradoxes are servile
imitators, and even in their incredulity discover an implicit faith.
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give
us ground to presume ability. But the physician of the state who, not
satisfied with the cure of distempers, undertakes to regenerate
constitutions ought to show uncommon powers. Some very unusual appearances
of wisdom ought to display themselves on the face of the designs of those”
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