Pamphlet Replies to Burke's Reflections.

The article focuses on issues related to the pamphlet controversy that swept England after 1790. The controversy centered around Edmund Burke, an intellectual leader. Burke's opponents were indignant because his book "Reflections on the Revolution in France" appeared in November 1970, the moment when prospects seemed to glow brightly for a moderate settlement of French affairs. Indeed, most liberal Englishmen assumed that the worst days of the Revolution were passed, that the old regime was abolished, and that France was entering on a peaceful and prosperous career under a government which, unlike the English, they said, was based on full recognition of the rights of men. Within a few years, however some of the former friends of the Revolution were ashamed of their ardor. Without going into a detailed analysis of the "Reflections on the Revolution in France," one needs only to recall that Burke opposed the Revolution because it seemed to controvert all that in government, society, and religion, he held most dear.