Burke, Edmund:

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REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND ON THE PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN SOCIETIES IN LONDON, RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT. IN A LETTER.... Second American edition (preceded by a New York, 1791 printing by Hugh Gaine) of one of the most important political works of the late 18th century, Edmund Burke's fierce denunciation of the French Revolution. Burke was a staunch supporter of the American side during the American Revolution, but it was conducted on a philosophical basis with which he was in sympathy, and was notably free of atrocity. The excesses and slaughter which began to characterize the French Revolution were different, and the deposing of Louis XVI opened up a gulf of possibility which struck fear into the hearts of conservative powers throughout Europe. Burke's REFLECTIONS... crystallized the opposition to the French Revolution on philosophical as well as political grounds. "His anger and disgust were exacerbated by the dread that the aims, principles, methods and language which he detested in France might affect the people of England."In America, Burke's conservative attack on the French Revolution and his opposition to the Whig support of it was mirrored by the conflict between the Republican faction led by Jefferson, who supported the Revolution, and the Federalist faction led by Hamilton, who agreed with Burke that it was an outrage. The supporters of the French revolutionaries found their best counter-argument in Thomas Paine's RIGHTS OF MAN, written specially to

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