Yet, where the Irish Catholics were concerned, he makes a unique allowance, if not for a legitimate kind of Jacobinism, at least for a kind rooted in human nature; the two categories are, in Burke’s mind, very close together. ‘That Jacobinism,’ he wrote to Hussey, which is Speculative in its Origin and which arises from Wantonness and fullness of bread may possibly be kept under by firmness and prudence… But the Jacobinism which arises from Penury and irritation, from scorned loyalty and rejected Allegiance, has much deeper roots. They take their nourishment from the bottom of human Nature…
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