| Edmund Burke - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 512 pages
...that combine or oppose one another in "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."60 Discordance does not produce social contradiction, in that strange Marxist expression... | |
| Keith M. Baker, John W. Boyer, Julius Kirshner - History - 1987 - 480 pages
...all that opposition of interests, you had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle...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... | |
| Peter James Stanlis - Natural law - 1958 - 292 pages
...states, where they are able to fulfill "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."42 Burke felt that "the diversity of interests, that must exist, and must contend, in all... | |
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