Explain the following quote: "Society is indeed a contract. . . . As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it...

This
quotation is from 's . Burke took a disapproving attitude to the
Revolution, which was not necessarily what would have been expected of himhe had advocated for
many other liberal causes, including the American Revolution and the disentanglement of his home
country, Ireland, from British rule. However, Burke felt that the French revolutionaries were
not conducting themselves in a way which was productive, or which would help them form the kind
of society which he felt should be striven towards at all times.

Burke
disapproved of the French Revolution because, unlike other revolutions, he felt that it was an
attack on what was fundamental to French civilization itself, rather than an attempt by a
disenfranchised people to free themselves. He noted that part of what makes society function is
for us to be defined by the "subdivision" of it to which we belong. The
Revolutionaries wanted to...