Thursday, August 27, 2020
Common Dispositions
Edmund Burke, "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents," Pre-Revolutionary Writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 116-192 (at 117):
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind; indeed the necessary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar.
