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The article focuses on the writings of Edmund Burke. It is not surprising that in this plethora of ancestor fetishism, the name of Edmund Burke should be on the lips of its modern defenders. In many respects Burke reflects the conflicts which go on in every man who endeavors seriously to confront the dilemmas of politics. Burke's first principle has considerable validity, for it is an attack on the 18th Century tendency to assimilated morals and politics to mathematics and logic. One of Burke's greatest failings was in refusing to admit explicitly that any use of tradition and any application of prudence must necessarily occur within a framework of rationality.