Heritage History Month Day Twenty-Four: Edmund Burke
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Happy Edmund Burke Day! It is Day Twenty-Four of Heritage History Month and we are going to look today to the great critic of the French Revolution and the coming of the “Empire of Light and Reason” that would characterize rationalistic modernism. Burke himself cannot be said to embody the full spirit of the Tory traditionalists (he was a Whig), but his understanding of the cataclysmic effects of revolting against the past were profound.
Heritage History Month Day Twenty-Four: Edmund Burke
Heritage History Month Day Twenty-Four…
Heritage History Month Day Twenty-Four: Edmund Burke
Happy Edmund Burke Day! It is Day Twenty-Four of Heritage History Month and we are going to look today to the great critic of the French Revolution and the coming of the “Empire of Light and Reason” that would characterize rationalistic modernism. Burke himself cannot be said to embody the full spirit of the Tory traditionalists (he was a Whig), but his understanding of the cataclysmic effects of revolting against the past were profound.