...the civilization and manners of modern Europe as a whole were the children of Church and hierarchy: Nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have ... depended for ages upon two principles; and were indeed the...

...promulgated Marx's historical materialism really believe it. 65. Burke, Reflections, p. 182. Likewise, "nothing is more certain, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things" connected with them have depended on "the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion" (p. 173)....

...far wider role, which was to fashion European civilisation. 'Nothing is more certain', wrote Burke, than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles;...

...Italy, and Japan, than the writing of Edmund Burke, whose summary judgment he cites with approval: "Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things that are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended...

...conflicted, but have more often been in alliance with one another. As Burke says in a well-known passage: 'Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things that are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended...

...be indifferent in their operation, we must presume that on the whole their operation was beneficial. ere be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another; yet manners and with civilization have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles...

...above making an argument based on social utility when it suited his purposes. See, eg, Reflections, 69: Nothing is more certain than that our manners, our...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization have . . . depended for ages upon two principles and were, indeed, the...

...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles,...

...indifferent in their operation, we must presume, that, on the whole, their operation was beneficial. We are but too apt to consider things in the state...which we find them, without sufficiently adverting [paying attention] to the causes by M Burke suggests that rationalism can undermine existing institutions...

...terms of intellectual industriousness. 'Nothing is more certain', Burke insisted in the Reflections, 'than that our manners, our civilization, and all the good things which are connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles...