Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke Papyras Classics

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Chapter 14

Self-Inspection

Whatever turns the soul inward on itself, tends to concentre its forces, and to fit it for greater and stronger flights of science. By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose our game, the chase is certainly of service.