Which of the following texts published in the 1790s did not epitomize the radical social thinking stimulated by the French Revolution ?
Correct answer: D. Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
- A. Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men
- B. Paine's Rights of Man
- C. Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
- D. Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
Explanation
Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France attacked the French Revolution and defended traditional political institutions, unlike the radical arguments of Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin. It therefore did not express the period's revolutionary social thinking.
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