Burke Reconsidered

A few people have questioned my reading of Burke’s Vindication of Natural Society. The present consensus interprets Burke’s Vindication as a satire of Bolingbroke. Yet, comparable themes appear throughout Burke’s “serious” writings. His Abridgment of English History contains similar thoughts on lawyers that one reads in the Vindication. Tracts Relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland contains similar remarks regarding the nature of the state.  Finally, Burke, in his Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies, said: "we were confident that the first feeling, if not the very prospect of anarchy, would instantly enforce a complete submission.  The experiment was tried.  A new, strange, unexpected face of things appeared.  Anarchy is now found tolerable.  A vast province has now subsisted, and subsisted in a considerable degree of health and vigor, for near a twelvemonth, without governor, without public council, without judges, without executive magistrates." If the Vindication is a satire, then why do similar themes appear in his later non-satirical writings?