A Vindication of Natural Society

Edmund Burke

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s Po/.Sci A VINDICATION O F NATURAL SOCIETY: O R, A View of the Miseries and Evils arifing to Mankind from every Species of ARTIFICIAL SOCIETY. In a Letter to Lord **** By a late Noble Writer. LONDON: Printed for M. Cooper in Pater-nq/fer-Row, 1756. [Price One Shilling and Six-pence.] ADVERTISEMENT. TH E following Letter appears to have been written about the Year 1748, and the Perfon to whom it is ad- dreffed need not be pointed out. As it is probable the Noble Writer had no De- fign that it fhould ever appear in Publick, this will account for his having kept no Copy of it, and confequently, for it's not appearing amongft the reft of his Works. By what Means it came into the Hands of the Editor, is not at' all material to the Publick, any farther than as fuch an Ac- count might tend to authenticate the Ge- nuinenefs of it, and for this it was thought it might fafely rely on it's own internal Evidence. A LETTER T O A LETTER T O SHALL I venture to fay, my Lord, that in our late Converfation, you were inclined to the Party which you adopted rather by the Feelings of your good Nature, than by the Conviction of your Judgment ? We laid open the Foun- dations of Society ; and you feared, that the Curiofity of this Search might en- danger the Ruin of the whole Fabrick. You would readily have allowed my Prin- ciple, but you dreaded the Confequences -, you thought, that having once entered upon B thefe thefe Reafonings, we might be carried in- fenfibly and irrefiftably farther than at firft we could either have imagined or wifhed. But for my part, my Lord, I then thought, and am ftill of the fame Opinion, that Er- ror, and not Truth of any Kind, is danger- ous j that ill Conclufions can only flow fro

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