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Edmund Burke (10646 words) |
 | Burke was born at Dublin in Ireland, then part of the British Empire, the son of a prosperous attorney, and, after an early education at home, became a boarder at the school run by Abraham Shackleton, a Quaker from Yorkshire, at Ballitore in the Blackwater Valley. |
| Burke retained all his life a sense of the responsibility of the educated, rich and powerful to improve the lot of those whom they directed; a sense that existing arrangements were valuable insofar as they were the necessary preconditions for improvement; and a strong sense of the importance of educated people as agents for change. |
| Burke himself, however much he might try to hide the logic of his thought under the rich foliage of words generated by his skill with words — he is perhaps the only classic of political thought in the English language who is also a literary classic — was a philosophical thinker. |
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