If one attempts to trace conservative ideas back to an earlier time in Britain, soon he is enmeshed in Whiggery, Toryism, and intellectual antiquarianism for the modern issues, though earlier taking substance, were not yet distinct. The Carmagnole announced the opening of our era, and the smoky energy of coal and steam in the north of England was the signal for another revolution. In that year the prophetic powers of Burke fixed in the public consciousness, for the first time, the opposing poles of conservation and innovation. First edition originally published 1953.Ĭonscious conservatism, in the modern sense, did not manifest itself until 1790, with the publication of Reflections on the Revolution in France. The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1960).
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