Kirk
No, Burke never traveled further than Paris, while alive: but posthumously he has moved in seven league boots, so that his voice is heard even in Japan nowadays. And in Italy, to which Burke’s ideas scarcely penetrated in the nineteenth century, the rising generation —groping now for some principles of ordered freedom— is discovering Burke: in one Italian city a young Communist instructed by the Party to infiltrate and destroy non-Communist students’ organizations happened upon Burke’s writings, and in consequence has become one of the two most active conservatives in his province.
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