ABSTRACT
Edmund Burke understands the more mysterious elements in human nature, with its rich fusion of the senses, reason, and faith, of prejudices, passions, and intuitions, all enriched by fancy, imagination, and social habits. Man was not to be explained merely by his sense impressions being systematically organized through mathematical science. The Natural Law as an ethical norm, and not history as a descriptive science, supplied the criterion for moral judgments of man's behavior. In economic theory also Burke's moral dualism stands in the sharpest contrast with the implicit monism in the prevailing pleasure-pain calculus. Against sensibility and salvation through feeling alone, Burke took his stand on traditional Christian grounds. When reason and history had revealed all that man was capable of knowing about government and the art of politics, there still remained for Burke the power and wisdom of God, whose spirit touched the innermost springs of human nature.
