バーク『フランス革命の省察』（70）先入見と時効
米国の政治理論家ラッセル・カークは言う。 “Prejudice” — the half-intuitive knowledge that enables man to meet the problems of life without logic-chopping —"prescription” — the customary right which grows out of the implied conventions and compacts of many successive generations — employing these instruments, mankind manages to live together in some degree of amicability and freedom. –- Russell Kirk, The Purposeful Design of Providence: Edmund Burke （「先入見」――人間が理屈を捏（こ）ねることなく人生の問題に取り組むことを可能にする半直感的な知識――「時効」――多くの連続する世代の暗黙の合意や契約から生まれる慣習上の権利――これらの手段を用いて、人類はある程度の友好と自由の中で共生することが出来る）―『意味深長な神の計画：エドマンド・バーク』 They direct the individual conscience and the conscript fathers. Without them, society can be kept from destruction only by force and a master. “Somewhere there must be a control upon will and appetite; and the less of it there is within, the more of it there must be without.” For if prejudice and prescription be eradicated, only one peaceful instrument remains for preventing man from relapsing into that...