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¶" Faith in what conservatives call "prescription"—the accumulation of "traditions and sound prejudice," i.e., common sense.
¶ "Recognition that change and reform are not the same things, and that "innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress."
Kirk's six canons suggest an appraisal of his book couched appropriately in conservative understatement: it has an interest that is not mainly antiquarian.
*Assistant professor of the history of civilization at Michigan State College. **The French Revolution's famous Jacobin club (boss: Robespierre) took its name from its address in the Rue St. Jacques.