Excerpt from The Political Philosophy of Burke
There is a passage in Burke's writings in which he says that he does not vilify theory, and the remark is truer than he knew. But it does not alter the fact that, in the whole range of our literature, there is no decrier of theories and theorists comparable to him. Sometimes he despises them; sometimes he fears them; always, or almost always, he appears to hate them. In a large proportion of his political writings there is a point at which, despite his deep-seated rationality, he drops argument and betakes himself to missiles. 'Refining speculatists,' 'smugglers of adulterated metaphysics,' 'atheistical fathers,' 'metaphysical knights of the sorrowful countenance,' 'political aeronauts' - these may suffice as fragments from the commination service.
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