...because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages."4 By reason, Burke did not mean simply the written words of notable individuals but the whole...

...because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would be better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of...prejudices, employ their sagacity to discover the general wisdom which prevails in them.'9 With a political philosophy that rests on sentiment, what...

...reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages." "I remember an old scholastic aphorism which says, 'that the man who lives wholly detached from others...

...because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages." 118 This thought was expressed colloquially by House Majority Leader Dick Armey in his The Freedom...

...outlook, it would also deprive any individual of the resources of tradition. He advised people 'to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages'. From this has extended a highly restricted definition of both tradition and culture. It is consonant...

...because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages." Prejudice, moreover, "is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a...

...because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages." The wisdom of experience is of particular importance for Burke because it embodies changes in the characters...

...small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital 01" nations and of ages. Many of our men of speculation,...they think it more wise to continue the prejudice, wich the reason involved, than to cast away the coat of prejudice, and to leave nothing but the naked...

...because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of...discover the latent wisdom which prevails in them. 42 Burke's most important claim opposes the small size of each "private stock of reason" to the "general...

...[conservatives] suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages" 140 represented by traditional prejudices (broadly construed). Those who reject the combined wisdom...