Justice was asserted to be the centre of social right; and it was defined as the overthrow of those prescriptive privileges which Burke regarded as the protective armour of the body politic.

Above all, the men who seized the reins of power became convinced that theirs was a specific of universal application.

Their disciples in England seemed in the same diabolic frenzy with themselves.
In a moment of time, the England which had been the example to Europe of ordered popular liberty became, for these enthusiasts, only less barbaric than the despotic princes of the continent.

That Price and Priestley should suffer the infection was, even for Burke, a not unnatural thing.

But when Charles Fox cast aside the teaching of twenty years for its antithesis, Burke must have felt that no price was too great to pay for the overthrow of the Revolution.
Certainly his pamphlets on events in France are at every point consistent with his earlier doctrine.