... only these two groups. As the summer crept through, dissatisfaction began to grow among the lower classes, especially the peasantry. However, this wasn't enough to push the revolution into it's radical phase. Many factors contributed to this, some more severe than others. The problem was that all of the factors were attempting to bring down the revolution, and all turned in the complete opposite direction, they caused the revolution to become even stronger than ever. Before this time, counter revolutionary theoretical work was commonly written, the most famous by Edmund Burke in 1790: Reflections on the Revolution in France. He stated that "Human beings were not abstract entities, but products of tradition and history. Therefore, one could not throw out centuries of history and remake government from the ground based on abstract principles such as 'rights'. Failure to take account of history will end up turning French society into pieces."1 At ...

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