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At Cambridge he learned and then rejected positivist, antimetaphysical philosophy and soon discovered his idol, Edmund Burke. It almost seems as if Edmund Burke had V in mind when, writing of the French Revolution, he warned that "criminal means once tolerated are soon preferred. As an example of a true patriot I offer Edmund Burke, the founder of modern conservatism and sometime friend, sometime adversary of Johnson. |
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Edmund Burke - British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)