but only a little. Aside from his belief that only a hereditary monarchy can secure individual liberties:
No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right. - Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burke admits that many peoples lives are in fact miserable and that is as it should be:
...they worked from dawn to dark in the innumerable servile, degrading, unseemly, unmanly, and often most unwholesome and pestiferous occupations to which by the social economy so many wretches are inevitably doomed. If it were not generally pernicious to disturb the natural course of things and to impede in any degree the great wheel of circulation which is turned by the strangely-directed labor of these unhappy people,...
These people are only accepting of their lot because of what Marx called "
the opium of the people":
They must labor to obtain what by labor can be obtained; and when they find, as they commonly do, the success disproportioned to the endeavour, they must be taught their consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice.
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