...Cultural continuity itself requires change. As Edmund Burke says with regard to the political order, "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." In the same vein, Burke writes admiringly about the adaptability of the constitutional system that...

...reform carried out in a civilized spirit was absolutely necessary to the continued vitality of society: "A state without the means of some change is without...which it wished the most religiously to preserve." On the other hand, whirlwind alteration in which the past is rudely cast aside precipitates de33. Kirk,...

...Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in Practice, Springer- Verlag, New York, NY, 2001. Batch State Estimation A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Burke, Edmund THE previous chapter allows estimation of the states in the model of a dynamical system...

...those that are obviously 'mischievous'.34 As the great conservative idealogue, Edmund Burke, observed, 'A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its conservation'.35 This quintessentially Whiggish mindset was beautifully encapsulated in the adage of...

...Revolution in France, in which he emphasized the importance of precedent, but also reminded readers that the "state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation," and that the ideal state acts "[a]t once to preserve and to reform" (28, 19, 148); Adams, The First...

...should be sought before abandoning hope for democracy. 20 Restoration A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation. Without...part of the constitution which it wished the most ... to preserve. Edmund Burke1 A:ONG THE ADVANTAGES of reviving what we have, rather than developing...

...he demanded the total abolition of slavery, hardly the demand of a foe of liberty and social change. "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation" — that sentence of 1790 best expressed his most lasting achievement: the synthesis of conservatism...

...Republican party which has yet to learn the anti-rightist warning spoken in 1790 by the conservative Burke: "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." What about the argument (very sincerely believed by National Review and Old Guard Republicans) that...

...commerce, parliamentary monarchy, and even decolonization, and stressed the tmportance of social change: "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." Burke created the foundations of conservative liberalism in England, as this liberal movement expressed...

...Strauss, Spinoza's Critique of Religion (New York: Schocken Books, 1965), p. 27] See Burke, Works, 4:23. ("A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.") See, also, chap. 8, n. 150 (end), above. There is, on the other hand, something deeply radical in any...