So that he remains a figure of uniqueness.

He may, as Goldsmith said, have expended upon his party talents that should have illuminated the universal aspect of the State.

Yet there is no question with which he dealt that he did not leave the richer for his enquiry.
III The liberalism of Burke is most apparent in his handling of the immediate issues of the age.

Upon Ireland, America and India, he was at every point upon the side of the future.

Where constitutional reform was in debate no man saw more clearly than he the evils that needed remedy; though, to a later generation, his own schemes bear the mark of timid conservatism.