\u2018To make a revolution is to subvert the ancient state of our country; and no common reasons are called for to justify so violent a proceeding\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n
Burke\u2019s seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution\u2019s attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than revolutionary change \u2013 and deplores the influence Burke feared the revolution might have in Britain.\u00a0Refl<\/small>ections on the Revolution in France<\/em>\u00a0is now widely regarded as a classic statement of conservative political thought, and is one of the eighteenth century\u2019s great works of political rhetoric.<\/p>\n Conor Cruise O\u2019Brien\u2019s introduction examines the contemporary political situation in England and Ireland and its influence on Burke\u2019s point of view. He highlights Burke\u2019s brilliant grasp of social and political forces and discusses why the book has remained so significant for over two centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[688],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":["20130"],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n