...another. In Burke's famous words, written in the aftermath of the French Revolution: [One] should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father,...By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces,...

...evident when Burke considered the weaknesses of the state. He believed that citizens "should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." 41 Burke's feeling of "filial reverence" toward the state was no mere ornamental figure of speech....

...state itself became seen as a kind of father. We should, Burke writes in the Reflections, "approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." He adds, with obvious reference not merely to France but to the antiaristocratic radicals in London...

...that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." Even though the Terror in France was state terror, it was Edmund Burke who bequeathed us the definition...

...that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father,...By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country, who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces,...

...that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father,...By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces...

...flourishing at the macrocosmic level. Submission to power ensured that would-be reformers "approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude." Similarly, the submission (to the point of invisibility) of women in the public sphere was learned...

...that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father,...By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent io pieces...

...that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father,...By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent io pieces...

...that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling sollicitude. By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country...