I am very much afraid that this much-vaunted masterpiece cannot
withstand an impartial examination based on the principles of a genuine
political order. We will perhaps be able to see that it is more of a product
of chance and circumstance than enlightenment. Its upper house is obviously
redolent of the period of the Revolution of 1688. We have already
pointed out that it is almost impossible not to see it as a monument to
gothic superstition