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    Evil institutions can exist and persist across time. — Carmelics
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    Challenges→On Burke's view, evil institutions could become objects of reverence simply by being longstanding.

    Evil institutions can exist and persist across time.

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    In the case of public institutions, Mr. Burke had…worked himself into an artificial admiration of the bare fact of existence; especially ancient existence. Everything was to be protected, not because it was good, but, because it existed. Evil, to render itself an object of reverence in his eye, required only to be realised. (James Mill 1858: Vol. V, 200–1)

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