The Conservative Political Tradition in Britain and the United StatesThis book seeks to break new ground by providing an original framework within which to understand conservative politics and to compare what has always been thought to be opposite ideal types -- a British conservatism characterized by traditionalism and an American conservatism defined by its optimistic individualism. |
Contents
Order and Social Discipline | 26 |
Property | 49 |
Nation and Race | 73 |
Culture | 92 |
Democracy | 108 |
Revolution | 131 |
Fin de Siècle Conservatism | 150 |
Index | 164 |
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Page 135 - May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.
Page 135 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.