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and wisdom. Inasmuch as Burke is relentless in his impassioned antagonism, striking predictions and opposition to radical reformation, his profound insights on the natural and providential model of history are crucial to understanding his position on a “manly, moral, regulated ...” and “wise” liberty.
For Burke, history is like Sea Waves: Natural. They follow the eternal and recurrent cycles of Nature. Burke’s sea is naturally and majestically providential. Phosphorescent.
Unchanging &
For Burke, constancy flows through the vibrations of time and water. Like God’s will: ever flowing and unchanging and unfolding in the folds of water &. Burke: a perplexing coherent transcendental and materialist 3⁄4 a multiplicity. For Burke God’s will is visible throughout the incessant patterns and rhythms of nature. Its seasons. (Yet seasons constitute binaries and non- binaries: spring and autumn, summer and winter 3⁄4 n mn mm n 3⁄4 might this be the missing “proposition that implies the entire universe”3 or ...). Then, “What sort of sentence would be
3 Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. “The Writing of the God”. NY, USA: The Penguin Group. Viking. 1998.
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