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" ... that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. "
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Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution

Peter James Stanlis - Natural law - 1958 - 292 pages
...development through history, have placed people in various national states, where they are able to fulfill "that action and counteraction, which, in the natural...of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe."42 Burke felt that "the diversity of interests, that must exist, and must contend, in all...
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A Textual Introduction To Social and Political Theory

Richard Paul Bellamy, Angus C. Ross - Philosophy - 1996 - 356 pages
...community was happily composed; you had all that combination, and all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction which, in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and...
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Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche

David Wootton - Political Science - 1996 - 964 pages
...community was happily composed; you had all that combination and all that opposition of interests; you had that action and counteraction which, in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and...
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - History - 1997 - 720 pages
...community was happily composed; you had all that combination and all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction, which, in the natural...discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and...
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The Reopening of the American Mind: On Skepticism and Constitutionalism

James W. Vice - History - 1998 - 304 pages
...community was happily composed; you had all that combination and all that opposition of interests; you had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests which...
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Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History

Deborah Elise White - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 252 pages
...he would have deplored. For Burke, too, the "combination and . . . opposition of interests" produces "that action and counteraction which, in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests . . . interpose a salutary check to all precipitate resolutions....
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Edmund Burke and the Natural Law

Peter James Stanlis - Law - 2015 - 350 pages
...development through history, have placed men in various national states, where they are able to fulfill "that action and counteraction, which, in the natural...discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe." 42 Burke felt that "the diversity of interests, that must exist, and must contend, in all complex society,"...
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The Political Writings of Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate - Business & Economics - 2002 - 460 pages
...combination and that opposition of interests, that action and that counteraction which, in the natural and the political world, from the reciprocal struggle...powers, draws out the harmony of the universe." This is the language of one of the wisest men and most accomplished minds that ever lived, I hope our example...
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Celestina

Charlotte Smith - Fiction - 2004 - 612 pages
...French Parliament, needed curbing, but that reform is now going too far.. 6 Types or classes of people. the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and...
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...community was happily composed; you had all that combination and all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction, which, in the natural...discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. These opposed and conflicting interests, which you considered as so great a blemish in your old and...
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