stead of turning to time tested rational principles, as Burke would point out many times (Burke, 1790).
Burkes' point was simple, unless a link with the past was maintained, the present and future would be anarchy:
. . . and that the ancient constitution of government which is our only security for law and liberty. . . All the reformations we have hitherto made have proceeded upon the principle of reverence to antiquity. (
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