Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . :i^ J I. 61fi BEVOLUTIOX AXD REACTIOX. [1784 to siicli measure, iis that in wliich they are combmed byBurke. Of course he was not absolutel} proof against theinfluences of tradition and training, and he allowed someAVhig dogmas to pass with insutiicient interrogation; butwith these exceptions, and thoy were comparatively few, his brilliant general-ising faculty and splen-did theorematic powersw
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . :i^ J I. 61fi BEVOLUTIOX AXD REACTIOX. [1784 to siicli measure, iis that in wliich they are combmed byBurke. Of course he was not absolutel} proof against theinfluences of tradition and training, and he allowed someAVhig dogmas to pass with insutiicient interrogation; butwith these exceptions, and thoy were comparatively few, his brilliant general-ising faculty and splen-did theorematic powerswore everywhere guidedand held in check bya resolutely practicalcriticism of commonsense. It was duringour present period thatthis unparalleled arrayof gifts was to receiveits most memorableillustration. In 1790appeared the Reflec-tions on the FrenchEevolution, in whichall the argumentativeand all the rhetoricalabilities which Burkehad displayed in hisearlier works were en-listed in a cause to which he Avas most passionately the result was a masterpiece. To pass from Burke to Mackintosh is to make the descentfrom genius to talent with more suddenness, not to say violence,than one would natural
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