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Reflections on the Sexual Revolution in France | Episode XXXVII

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The French Revolution and Education in the Great Tradition

In 1791, still relatively speaking early on in the French Revolution, Burke writes a letter to a member of the National Assembly. He says that revolutionary education "artificially foment these evil dispositions and even form them into springs of action" The revolution is not just a question of books or curriculum, it goes down to the bedrock of society, human society, and the human person down to virtues and vices.

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