...purposes of our being, for the promotion of science, art, virtue. "It is," Burke holds with passion, "not a partnership in things subservient only to the...who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born." Like Burke, Rousseau almost passes by the question of origins. In the Contrat...

...himself was not above falling into this fallacy, when in glowing words he pointed out that society is a partnership in all science; a partnership in...those who are dead, and those who are to be born. 21 Society is exactly this; but how from such praises of society could Burke conclude in favor of the...

...ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born." Raw intellectualism in any generation must not be allowed to drive out reverance for rank and class....

...the philosophic basis of conservatism ever writt.ten, and who looked upon "society as a partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born". But it was said "For him the present ceases to 'be merely the heir of the past,...

...great Edmund Burke himself fell into this fallacy, when in glowing words he pointed out that society is a partnership in all science; a partnership in...living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.21 Society is exactly this; but how from such praises of society could Burke conclude (as he did)...

...political and legal sense, which are the conditions precedent for the success of democratic government. "•"It is a partnership in all science; a partnership...those who are dead, and those who are to be born," French Revolution 143-4; "by thia unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much,...

...historical continuity of communities in the famous statement of Edmund Burke, according to which society is "a partnership not only between those who are living,...those who are dead, and those who are to be born". 8 9 But if communities have such a historical dimension, then the fact that not all of those constrained...

...existing conventions and mores. In contrast to liberal contractarianism, Burke argued that the state is "a partnership not only between those who are living,...those who are dead, and those who are to be born.""" The French revolutionaries had broken this partnership in favor of the narrower conception of contract...

...distinguished by its historical continuity and distinctive culture. As Edmund Burke phrased it, there is a 'partnership not only between those who are living,...living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.'18 Basic institutions and attributes of community in the form of family, clan, church, language,...

...Burke's contract 1in E. Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France. Dent. London 1910. pp. 93- 94) 'becomes a partnership not only between those who...those who are living. those who are dead and those who are not yet born'. Thus Burke's contract certainly appears to lead to obligations to distant future...