A “latent wisdom” exists in long-established customs and institutions—or so says the Burkean conservative. The benefits surface far in time and space from the practices that cause them, through hidden and indirect mechanisms. They were unseen, Burke warned, by the French Revolutionaries, who were further blinded by principles …
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