The unwillingness of Burke to examine into their foundation reveals his lack of moral insight into the problem he confronted.
That lack of insight must, of course, be given some explanation; and its cause seems rooted in Burke's metaphysic outlook.

He was profoundly religious; and he did not doubt that the order of the universe was the command of God.

It was, as a consequence, beneficent; and to deny its validity was, for him, to doubt the wisdom of God.

"Having disposed," he wrote, "and marshalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our will, but to His, He had, in and by that disposition, vitally subjected us to act the part which belongs to the place assigned us." The State, in fact, it is to be built upon the sacrifice of men; and this they must accept as of the will of God.

We are to do our duty in our allotted station without repining, in anticipation, doubtless, of a later reward.
What we are is thus the expression of his goodness; and there is a real sense in which Burke may be said to have maintained the inherent rightness of the existing order.