...against chaos. Burke also considered that society was best ordered when it followed the familial pattern: "we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation of blood, binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties." He, too, believed...

...occur in that order in the passages that have been quoted? 'In this choice of inheritance', Burke says, 'we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood.'10 That is, we have made the state a family; but have we not done so by constituting it a family...

...vermittels Erhalt der civil society: Thus, by preserving the method of Nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new,...of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy."5 Die Verbindung eines statischen Zieles mit dem Bereich des Kontingenten zeigt schon im Ansatz...

...decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve, we are never wholly new; in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete.4' For Burke civil society is organic, a creation of man's corporate wisdom and power, working...

...vermittels Erhalt der civil society: "Thus, by preserving the method of Nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new,...of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy."5 Die Verbindung eines statischen Zieles mit dem Bereich des Kontingenten zeigt schon im Ansatz...

...decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new, in what we retain, we are never wholly obsolete. (Burke, 19o2, II:3o7) Some readers might be tempted, if asked to offer an example of Burke's "permanent...

...from us, in the same course and order ... by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete. " Examination of Prophecies (1807), in MD Conway (ed.), The Writings of Tom Paine, 4 vols. (1894-96),...

...real. As Burke (1987: 30) insists, 'by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state ... we are guided not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy'. Nature has no need of artifice, one might say, but artifice has need of nature. Viewed in these terms,...

...decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new;...we have given to our frame of polity the image of relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting...

...decay, fall, renovation, and progression. Thus, by preserving the method of nature in the conduct of the state, in what we improve we are never wholly new; in what we retain we are never wholly obsolete. (Burke 1973, -15-46) Geologist James Hutton seems to write Burke's state into stone in his 1795 Theory...