ought to be adjusted.................

 

Throughout, however, Burke demonstrates his ability to combine specific details with Olympian generalization.  Thus a discussion of imports from Jamica and the malign effects of the Stamp Act yields the timeless Burkean insight that 'politics ought to be adjusted, not to human reasonings, but to human nature; of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.'

-Jesse Norman, Edmund Burke: The First Conservative