This was the last piece that Burke wrote on the Revolution, in which there is any pretence of measure, sobriety, and calm judgment in face of a formidable and perplexing crisis.

Henceforth it is not political philosophy, but the minatory exhortation of a prophet.
We deal no longer with principles and ideas, but with a partisan denunciation of particular acts, and a partisan incitement to a given practical policy.

We may appreciate the policy as we choose, but our appreciation of Burke as a thinker and a contributor to political wisdom is at an end.

He is now only Demosthenes thundering against Philip, or Cicero shrieking against Mark Antony.
The _Reflections_ had not been published many months before Burke wrote the _Letter to a Member of the National Assembly_ (January 1791), in which strong disapproval had grown into furious hatred.

In contains the elaborate diatribe against Rousseau, the grave panegyric on Cromwell for choosing Hale to be Chief Justice, and a sound criticism on the laxity and want of foresight in the manner in which the States-General had been convened.