Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Discarding Our Opinions
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), A Vindication of Natural Society: or, a View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society:
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The nearer we approach to the Goal of Life, the better we begin to understand the true Value of our Existence, and the real Weight of our Opinions. We set out much in love with both; but we leave much behind us as we advance. We first throw away the Tales along with the Rattles of our Nurses; those of the Priest keep their Hold a little longer; those of our Governors the longest of all. But the Passions which prop these Opinions are withdrawn one after another; and the cool Light of Reason at the Setting of our Life, shews us what a false Splendor played upon these Objects during our more sanguine Seasons.
