When Edmund Burke penned his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France, he accosted the militant excesses of the revolutionaries for bringing death and destruction to a formerly beautiful (though imperfect) society. The Jacobin terror wrought ruins, carcasses, and a zealous press advancing its cause in its wake. Burke called the revolution the most astonishing…
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