65-9.] VI No man was more deeply hostile to the early politics of the romantic movement, to the _Contrat Social_ of Rousseau and the _Political Justice_ of Godwin, than was Burke; yet, on the whole, it is with the romantics that Burke's fundamental influence remains.

His attitude to reason, his exaltation of passion and imagination over the conscious logic of men, were of the inmost stuff of which they were made.

In that sense, at least, his kinship is with the great conservative revolution of the generation which followed him.

Hegel and Savigny in Germany, de Maistre and Bonald in France, Coleridge and the later Wordsworth in England, are in a true sense his disciples.

That does not mean that any of them were directly conscious of his work but that the movement he directed had its necessary outcome in their defence of his ideals.