...average man represents an instinct which itself finds its justification in experience. As Burke said : " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." And a reference to the verdicts of history is often the best weapon wherewith to silence the advocate...

...great social upheaval at the time of the French Revolution, had in mind one danger when he said : — " People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors"; whilst a less distinguished writer strikes perhaps a necessary note of warning about a danger on the...

...ii, st. 1. Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon. BYRON Childe Harold, can. ii, st. 88. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — BURKE Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 48. Sweet souls around us watch us still, Press...

...continuity: 'a spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors ... the people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes XXIH a sure principle of...

...interesting in so far as they remind us of the continuity of history. Indeed as Edmund Burke remarked, "people will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." For, those who recognize their past are often inspired to do something for those that will come after....

...of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. 1774 Reflections on the Revolutlon in France s the secret of success. History is more or less bunk. FORD Lena Guilbert 1870-1916 35 1775 Reflectlons on the Revolution in France Those who attempt to level never equalize. 1776 Reflections...

...WJ McCormack quotes Burke's Reflections in relation to Castle Rackrent, but Burke's declaration that 'people will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors', is even more germane to The Absentee. This is supported by the portrayal of Count O'Halloran, who,...

...winds of heaven" (R: 109). People need something more than a "sense of present convenience" (R: 100). "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors" (R: 38). By "prejudice" Burke means "ancient opinions and rules of life"(R: 89). These substitute for...

...and above it. A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of...

...for moral tradition.25 Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France put it this way: "People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors." The historical amnesiac will invariably be a moral illiterate; that is, those who have not read history...