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liberty” (89) while completely distorting freedom for freedom in its multiple sense of the word can never be either conservative or absolute or moderate. Burke, then thus, becomes its binary, its own self-antithesis (a negation of himself) while he naufragates in paradox: Men’s creations are God’s creations: to be honored while he opposes the creators of the Revolution...). For Burke, freedom is determined like the ebb of the waves 3⁄4 his words seem as if they were blasting us with their furious song, over and over again, forever dwelling in the storms of “Good order is the foundation of all good things...” (371) for chaos has also achieved some intense greatness.
The importance of his beliefs on a “manly, moral regulated liberty” (89). Burke is a romantic and nostalgic defender of the excesses of monarchy embodied in Marie Antoinette’s “let them eat cake” while starving populations Moreover, Burke is highly critical of Dr. Price, a minister of eminence or “reverend divine”, for his eagerness to set up churches to propagate untruth and the “spreading of contradiction” (95) throughout England.
It is evident by these previous statements that Burke’s position concerning Truth is absolute If Burke is so eager to refute a nationalistic and
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