...confined views" (119). "Our political system [inasmuch as it is historically founded and developed] is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world." What should we conclude? That all the French have made of their revolution is against the spirit of...

...2 vols. (London, 1876), 2:230-48. 3 Burke, Works, U. 307: Our political system is placed in a just symmetry with the order of the world, and with the...of existence decreed to a permanent body composed by transitory parts; wherein, by the dispensation of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great...

...transmit our property and our lives," he wrote. "The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down, to us and from us, in the same course and order." These words appear in Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France"— the revolution being an...

...between the structure of the family and the structure of the British government, claiming that Britain's political system 'is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world' and that 'we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood, binding up the constitution...

...notwithstanding, a new character and may have the advantage of change without the imputation of inconstancy.40 Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world . . . wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation...

...precedent.182 All in all, the English constitution, according to Burke, was in 'harmony' with nature, 'placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world', perfected by the 'disposition of stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation...

...the English political experience, still characterized this traditionalist orientation as operating 'in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world' and realizing 'a constitutional policy working after the pattern of nature.'81 And Friedrich Karl von Savigny,...

...our privileges, in the same manner in which we enjoy and transmit our property and our lives . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world . . . preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state." 9 Thus, though the unwritten constitution...

...on the fears of these target readers, Burke insinuates, over and over again, that while the British political system 'is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world', what is happening in France 'seems out of nature'. In this way, conservative ideology is presented...

...the best-known passage in Burke's later writings is his description of the British constitution as placed in "a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world."25 A similar passage that seems to me as important — though instructively different in its...