...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...vista, you see nothing but the gallows. Nothing is left "4 Burke here presents a theory of culture as a sublimation of more primitive human drives, especially...

..."offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings." Liberals misunderstand the nature of law. For them "laws are to be supported only by their own terrors,...can spare to them from his own private interests." Religion is a solemn responsibility of the magistrate, Burke told Parliament in 1792. It is, in words...

...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and which is as void of solid wisdom as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...are to be supported only by their own terrors and by die concern which each individual may find in them from his own private speculations or can spare to...

...commercialized society. Against the allegedly impending, sublime spectacle of a society wholly based on "the concern, which each individual may find in them, from his own private speculations, or ... from his own private interests" (RF, 171), Burke conceives a comprehensive symbolic regimen: "Society...

...that Burke's "gloomy prediction" had been fulfilled: "I thought of that passage in Mr. Burke's book, 'In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, I see the gallows!'" (Letters, 2:3.106; 2:2.89-90; see Reflections, 171-72). This reflexive, contextual...

...succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. 1 777 Reflections on the Revolution in France how to deal with enthusiasts. 6826 Essays ... "Warren Hastings' The Chief lustice was rich 1778 Rejlectlons on the Revolutlon in France Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels...

...philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings, and is as void of solid wisdom, as it is destitute of all taste and elegance,...individual may find in them, from his own private sacutations, or can spare to them from his private interests. In the groves of their academy, at the...

...recklessly through the bank and capital that is the wisdom of our ancestors. Under this newfangled system, "laws are to be supported only by their own terrors,...speculations, or can spare to them from his own private interests....Nothing is left which engages the affections on the part of the commonwealth. On the principles...

...muddy understandings. Reflections on the Revolution in i'rance ( 1 790) 23 In the groves of llicir academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. Reflections on the Revolution in i'rance 1 1 790); cf. Horace 387:8 24 Kings will be tyrants from policy...

...being." Cf. Reflections in Bohn, Works, 2:337, 341, 350: "in the groves of the [Parisian philosophers'] academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows." Hegel's "speculative" philosophy surely does not intend to be merely "abstract"; he in no sense approves...