Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate
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The Different Views of Burke and Payne
Burke believed that human beings were fundamentally limited. He thought that what we ought to do to make progress was to build on the best of the past. A lot of traditionalists think about tradition as a kind of downward slide, he says. The present is better than the past because history has been a process of gradual evolution.
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