...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...sort of family settlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain1 for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we...

...British constitutional history. For when comparing the Glorious Revolution with 1789, Burke writes that "the people of England well know that the idea of...It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires."57 This is, so to speak, Burkean prescription applied to the constitution. Just as infringements...

...of inhentance fumishes a sure prmciple of conservation, and a sure principle of transmission; . . . Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding...these maxims, are locked fast as in a sort of family sertlement; grasped as in a kind of mortmain for ever. By a constitutional policy, working after the...

...confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of transmission; without at all excluding a principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but...

...that what he calls an "entailed inheritance" provides "a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of improvement. It leaves acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires."" Burke prefers wisdom to reason because the former conserves the latter designs, and in designing wisdom,...

...France to the tranquil course of "nature," or that union of nature and history which is inheritance. Inheritance "furnishes a sure principle of conservation...transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement."8 It needs to be added, however, that if these are the beginnings, then as an ideological...

...'Address To The 166th Ohio Regiment," 22 August 1864, Complete Works 10: 203. 70. Compare to Edmund Burke: "[T]he people of England well know, that the idea...without at all excluding a principle of improvement." Reflections on the Revolution in France, 45. 1 thank Norman Jacobson for pointing out to me that Lincoln...

...and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties, from a long line of ancestors. . . . Inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation...acquisition free; but it secures what it acquires. ... In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...

...pp. 119-21: "People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Besides, the people of England well know, that the...without at all excluding a principle of improvement. . . . Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world,...

...monarchy according to a patrilineal model of inherited wealth, backed up by organic notions of continuity: The people of England well know, that the idea of...principle of conservation, and a sure principle of improvement. Whatever advantages are obtained by a state proceeding on these maxims, are locked fast...