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“nation. But I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to anything which relates to human actions and human concerns on a simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03

“Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.”
― Heinrich Heine