Explain the following quote: "All the good things which are connected with manners and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours,...

This
quotation comes from 's speech on The French Revolution. Burke was an Irishman, educated in
London, but he took a keen interest in what was going on in France. Unlike many of his
contemporaries, notably Thomas Paine, Burke was opposed to the French Revolution. He felt that
it was destructive to the absolute core principles of French society, and more broadly, European
society. This is what he is trying to emphasize in the quotation you have given.

Effectively, Burke is saying that the manners and the strictures of European
civilization have...