"Will Mr Burke be at the trouble to inform us, how far we are to go back to discover the rights of men, since the light of reason is such a fallacious guide that none but fools trust to its cold investigation?"
A Vindication of the Rights of Men in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
First edition appears in December of 1790. Second edition, with MW's name on the cover, published December 14. 2 entries in ESTC (1790).<br>
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Reading <u>The Vindications</u>. eds. D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf. (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2001). [Based on the 2nd ed.] See also edition at the Online Library of Liberty &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/991 on 2009-12-02">Link to OLL</a>&gt;.