 Although Price was influential in his lifetime in many areas, that influence soon waned, and few of his works were reprinted after his death. His immediate impact on discussion of the events surrounding the American and French revolutions was large, but naturally faded as those upheavals slipped into history. He died before the excesses of the French revolution, which had been predicted by Burke. As a result of the success of his predictions, Burke acquired an immense reputation, while Price’s was eclipsed. There is no doubt that Price, along with others in the “Age of Reason”, exaggerated the degree to which people would pay attention to rational principles and reasonable solutions. There seems little to suggest that his writings had a long-term impact on political philosophy. Nevertheless, liberal-democratic societies have embraced many of Price’s causes; in that sense, in the longer term, Price could be seen as being on the side of history after all.