...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;...

...observers denied that these two moralities were antithetical. In 1790, Burke dramatically asserted: 'Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles:...

...where he names what he fears most to lose. "Nothing is more certain," he writes in a famous passage, "than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;...

...Edmund Burke, good European governments existed in organic symbiosis with a broader European culture: "Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization have, in this European world of ours, depended upon two principles and...

...authority to submit to elegance, and gave a dominating vanquisher of laws to be subdued by manners. . . . Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;...

...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;...

...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state in which we find them, without sufficiently, ad verting to the causes by which they have been produced, and possibly may be upheld. Nothing is more...

...the Revolution in France of 1790, where he sees the revolutionaries as the new barbarians, attacking "[o]ur manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization."1 Earlier, in 1772, Dr. Johnson had refused to admit the word into...

...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilizaiion, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have,...

...in particular — but at any rate, Christianity understood as a whole, a unit. Burke suggested that "nothing is more certain than that our manners, our...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and civilization have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles...