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Date: 1790

"You would not secure men from tyranny and sedition, by rooting out of the mind the principles to which these fraudulent pretexts apply? If you did, you would root out every thing that is valuable in the human breast."

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

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Date: 1790

"The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds."

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.