In 1789, the Unitarian minister and philosopher Richard Price published the sermon, A Discourse on the Love of our Country. In it, Price glorified the French Revolution, comparing it to the English "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, which was a bloodless conflict. Price presented revolution as a necessary means to progress, and credited it as part of the will of God. His writings reflected the Enlightenment belief that societies are always tending towards greater justice. Price's discourse led to the notorious rebuttal pamplet by Edmund Burke, whose admiration of tradition and monarchy was torn apart by later writers such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine. In the discourse, Paine writes, "What an eventful period is this!... I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever."