The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate - Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy - Daniel I. O’neill - Hardback Bog - Pennsylvania State University Press -

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Many modern conservatives and feminists trace the roots of their ideologies, respectively, to Edmund Burke (1729–1797) and Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797). O’Neill says at the heart of their differences lies a dispute over democracy as a force tending toward savagery (Burke) or toward civilization (Wollstonecraft).