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Oainly mmmit. Anmiat aday, Um, on the basis ofmny~tim, would try m work
within mditiaul smamr lo achieve its g&. tather than dta thae $!maurn and sink
inw elurn.
Against this force of eon-drm. E U d dro ua a bcce of mdhumt.
For radicalism perbps we should urn M m Burlre's b2te in. the FRneh
mlution, md its underlying pbil-hy. That miutim vu ndid bsaur it
sought m change the root or fundamental Mlctures of society inm
entirely new. Again there ue two basic themes jutifying the mdcavor, and not
accidentally, they am mthmpolagical and politid, and quite the opposite of
Burke's me net. ryplflea by Rou-u, ws an ~maoon of runmi human
godntss. wth the ccomllary that evtl tr !he rcs~lt of form@. amfinal ~ r m l
rmrnva nor of mhmnt nu- nam The nmnd thme war - beltef o.- f fff
-m~pwaofrraun,mloeIfpMandgdbsaw~f~uvafmtheon~ally
smd human nature. to neate a whallv . . tun socrew bued on such ah- --~ land ~- ~
thmfore amenable w m) principlu as libeny, equality, and ndfraumity, once
the inhibiting smtmes of a eormpt roeid order arc clad away."
Thus, the radical view pmparu that the individual Amaim citizm would m tidy
chmu the gmd over evil. and that evil is caused by n amption of indtutim within
soday hat must be rebnned acmrding w human m u . 'Ex ongoing dialectic bcovscn
thew taro philosophies can be seen in all aspets of Ammcan society, for example, the
ongoing debate bxwm the mnvnntivc assevion of 'uaditioaal (amily dmm and the
ndial uphDldimg of 'individual civil rights.'
During the 1940's. the dYstic between mnrrvative and Rdi the- in
Amaiean aday began a Ichism which would lead w thc mation of the Beat rubeulm.
lbid.., p. 151