That his own safeguards were inadequate is clear enough at the present time.
He knew that the need was good government.

He did not nor could he realize how intimately that ideal was connected with self-government.
Yet the latest lesson is no more than the final outcome of his teaching.
IV A background so consistent as this in the inflexible determination to moralize political action resulted in a noble edifice.

Yet, through it all, the principles of policy are rather implied than admitted.

It was when he came to deal with domestic problems and the French Revolution that Burke most clearly showed the real trend of his thought.

That trend is unmistakable.