バーク『フランス革命の省察』（53）善と悪
To hear some men speak of the late monarchy of France, you would imagine that they were talking of Persia bleeding under the ferocious sword of Thamas Kouli Khân, — or at least describing the barbarous anarchic despotism of Turkey, where the finest countries in the most genial climates in the world are wasted by peace more than any countries have been worried by war, where arts are unknown, where manufactures languish, where science is extinguished, where agriculture decays, where the human race itself melts away and perishes under the eye of the observer. Was this the case of France? I have no way of determining the question but by a reference to facts. Facts do not support this resemblance. （人々がフランスの後期君主制について話すのを聞くと、トーマス・クーリ・ハーンの凶暴な剣の下で血を流すペルシャについて話しているのか、あるいは、少なくとも、世界で最も温暖な気候の、最も素敵な国々が、戦争で苦しめられてきた如何なる国よりも、平和で荒廃し、芸術が知られず、製造が衰え、科学が消え、農業が衰退し、観察者の眼前で人類そのものが徐々に消え失せるトルコの野蛮な無政府的専制について説明しているのかと思ってしまうでしょう）― cf. 半澤訳、pp. 160f Along with much evil, there is some good in monarchy itself; and...