官网网站：imzsat.genshuixue.com________________________________________________________________1新 SAT 官方指南阅读第十九篇全解析Passage 1 is adapted from Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Originally published in1790. Passage 2is adapted from Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. Originally published in 1791.Passage 1To avoid . . . the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand times worse than those ofobstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have consecrated the state, that no man should approachto look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution; that he should never dream ofbeginning its reformation by its subversion; that he should approach to the faults of the state as tothe wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude. By this wise prejudice we are5taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack thataged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that by their poisonousweeds, and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate theirfather’s life.Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest10may be dissolved at pleasure— but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than apartnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such lowconcern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of theparties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in thingssubservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a15官网网站：imzsat.genshuixue.com________________________________...
