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Writings of Edmund Burke held Online at “Our Civilization” Website
[ Bibliographical note: Our Civilisation [online] - properly called “A Theory of Civilization” - has been created by Philip Atkinson as a platform for his views on history, society, and culture - views broadly answering to the term ‘neo-con’ and which, in that connection, prominently features the writings of Edmund Burke among many other vintage writers who constitute a collection of classic writings adapted to his outlook. [See more, infra.]
| *Contents of Philip Magnus, ed., Selected Prose of Edmund Burke (1948) |
| Introduction |
On the Nabob of Arcot’s Debts (Speech) |
| “Character” of his Future Bride |
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (Speech) |
| Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents |
Reflections on the Revolution In France |
| American Taxation (Speech) |
Letter to Philip Francis, Esq., |
| To the Electors of Bristol (Speech) |
Letter from the New to the Old Whigs, 1791 |
| On Conciliation with America (Speech) |
On The Roman Catholics of Ireland (Letter) |
| Letter to the Hon. Charles James Fox |
Replying to the Evidence called for Warren Hastings |
| On the Plan for Economical Reform, (Speech) 1780 |
On Catholic Emancipation, Letter to William Smith, Esq. |
| Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election, 1780 |
Innovation is not Reform, Letter to William Elliot, Esq. |
| Declining The Poll, Speech At Bristol |
From “A Letter to a Noble Lord” |
| On Mr. Fox’s East India Bill (Speech) |
First Letter on a Regicide Peace |
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| Editions by Frank Canavan (Indianapolis: Liberty Inc. 1990) |
| Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and the Two Speeches on America |
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| Letters on a Regicide Peace |
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| —Go online; accessed 08.03.2011 |
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Further remarks on Philip Atkinson’s “Our Civilization”: Besides hosting such classics, Atkinson’s site valiantly attempts to pin-point the causes of decline of Western civilisation - so-called - and promote remedies if possible. The topics coverd there range from AIDS and asbestos (gold for lawyers) to the cane, feminism, and rugby (new effeminate rules), nuclear power (hampered by environmentalists), language (decay of), and 9/11 (death toll - barbarian raid) .. and many another chestnut of the far right.
Atkinson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK), in 1947, the son of an army officer whose enthusiam for Orwell led him to “plant” his family amid his beloved proletarian in an estate of “newly resettled slummer dwellers” - with unhappy results for his wife and children. He lives in Australia from where he observes local and global symptoms of the decline of the West. Having worked as a computer expert up to 1991, when he was “forced to retire”, he has since devoted himself to philosophy considered as “study of understanding”. His website includes a “Plea” for support of the corpus which he currently hosts - “but it is uncertain for how long” and an invitation for those who wish to “protect this knowledge [from] political correctness or being lost at [his] death” to support the site by Paypal [online].
Whatever may be said about his social outlook and his prognostications for society - which are unsettling, at any rate - his treasury of literary texts in good digital condition is a remarkable achievement. In amassing this, he has had the assistance of F. W. Rafferty, who has extract the “Maxims and Reflections of Burke” from Atkinson’s “classical library”, which incorporates a copy of Philip Magnus’s Selected Prose of Edmund Burke (1948), copied in its entirety to the website. A modified version of his index, with each item linked to its corresponding page on that website, has been copied above.
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