...person's understanding. Conservatives are likely to repudiate that as the arrogance of individualism: We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...own private stock of reason; because we suspect that the stock in each man is small, and that individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general...

...Indeed, we can trace this conception all the way back to Plato. Consider Edmund Burke who proposed that, 'We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...do better to avail themselves of the general bank of nations and of ages.' Reflections on the Revolution in France (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing...

...weak and prone to error, and therefore not exclusively to be relied upon. As he was to write in 1790, "we are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...each man is small, and that the individuals would be better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages."3 How did he...

...their own." "He is an illfurnished undertaker who has no machinery but his own hands to work with." "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages."...

...reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would be better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages. Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their...

...(Cambridge: Belknap, 1991), pp. 11-41. 117 See his Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 99: "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages." 118 This thought was expressed colloquially by House Majority Leader Dick Armey in his...

...the longer they have lasted, and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages. Many of our men of speculation, instead of exploding general prejudices, employ their...

...pure reason." Hence, man must often rely on this body of ancestral wisdom because, as Burke told us, "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages." Prejudice, moreover, "is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages...

...Burke, from a passage defending the value of "received opinion" as "an essential adjunct to reason": "We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages" (quoted in Brooks et al. 364). Here again, the reasoning subject is envisioned as governed...

...historical jurisprudence rests on simple prudence. According to Burke, the English are right to be "afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own...themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages." The wisdom of experience is of particular importance for Burke because it embodies changes...