The balance of power had been ever assumed as the known common law of Europe at all times and by all powers: the question had only been (as it must happen) on the more or less inclination of that balance.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The balance of power had been ever assumed as the known common law of Europe at all times and by all powers: the question had only been (as it must happen) on the more or less inclination of that balance." in the context of "Edmund Burke, Three Letters To A Member of Parliament On the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. Letter III. On the Rupture of the Negotiation; The Terms of Peace Proposed; And the Resources of the Country for the Continuance of the War, quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V (1887), p. 441" to mean that wisdom is timeless.