Solving Approach
This one works out to about 4.8 letters per word on average. This puzzle leans toward longer words — apostrophes and doubled letters will likely crack it open faster than word length alone. Rated medium, this one asks for a bit more pattern recognition than a warm-up puzzle, but nothing that requires guesswork.
About Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke was an influential 18th-century Irish-British philosopher and politician renowned for his conservative political theory and eloquent speeches. He championed the importance of tradition, gradual reform, and established institutions while opposing radical change, famously warning against the dangers of the French Revolution. Burke's reflections on aesthetics and his concept of the "sublime" profoundly influenced philosophy and literature. His most famous maxim reminds us that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
Did you know? In his 1790 work Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke famously predicted that the French Revolution would descend into chaos and tyranny long before the Reign of Terror occurred.