Portable Wisdom

Author: Edmund Burke

Brief Info: British and Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher

Years Lived: 1729-1797

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Quotations


The great primeval contract of eternal society

Society… is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular State is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath whith holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place.

From the book Reflections on the Revolution in France

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