The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

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Regnery Publishing, 1 sept. 2001 - 534 pages
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The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk is arguably one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism. Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk launched the modern American Conservative Movement. A must-read.
 

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society and sin
250
Conservatism with Imagination Disraeli and Newman
260
2 Disraeli and Tory loyalties
266
the sources of knowledge and the idea of education
279
Bagehot
294
Legal and Historical Conservatism a Time of Foreboding
298
2 Stephen on the ends of life and politics
304
status and contract
315

John Adams and Liberty Under Law
71
2 Alexander Hamilton
75
3 Fisher Ames vaticinations
80
4 John Adams as psychologist
86
5 The aristocracy of nature
93
6 American constitutions
98
7 Marshall and the metamorphosis of federalism
110
Romantics and Utilitarians
114
2 Canning and enlightened conservatism
124
3 Coleridge and conservative ideas
133
4 The triumph of abstraction
146
Southern Conservatism Randolph and Calhoun
150
2 Randolph on the peril of positive legislation
155
Calhoun
168
4 The valor of the South
181
Liberal Conservatives Macaulay Cooper Tocqueville
185
2 Macaulay on democracy
188
3 Fenimore Cooper and a gentlemans America
197
4 Tocqueville on democratic despotism
204
5 Democratic prudence
216
Transitional Conservatism New England Sketches
225
his aspirations and his failure
231
3 The illusions of transcendentalism
240
4 Brownson on the conservative power of Catholicism
245
illiberal democracy
327
Conservatism Frustrated America 18651918
337
2 James Russell Lowells perplexities
341
3 Godkin on democratic opinion
348
4 Henry Adams on the degradation of the democratic dogma
356
5 Brooks Adams and a world of terrible energies
366
English Conservatism Adrift the Twentieth Century
375
2 George Gissing and the Nether World
380
his spiritual conservatism and the tide of socialism
387
a conservative synthesis
396
5 A dreary conservatism between wars
410
Critical Conservatism Babbitt More Santayana
415
the higher will in a democracy
419
3 Paul Elmer More on justice and faith
432
4 George Santayana buries liberalism
443
5 America in search of ideas
453
Conservatives Promise
457
2 The new elite
466
3 Scholar confronts intellectual
475
4 The conservative as poet
491
NOTES
503
A Select Bibliography
515
INDEX
525
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Page 17 - It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Page 48 - ... himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary by other means of social protection.
Page 41 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason ; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations, and of ages.
Page 60 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Page 52 - The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes ; and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle^ incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned.
Page 64 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, p.
Page 301 - All the grand sources, in short, of human suffering are in a great degree, many of them almost entirely, conquerable by human care and effort; and though their removal is grievously slow - though a long succession of generations will perish in the breach before the conquest is completed, and this world becomes all that, if will and knowledge were not wanting, it might easily be...
Page 17 - Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, sceptical, puzzled, and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Page 321 - The movement of the progressive societies has been uniform in one respect. Through all its course it has been distinguished by the gradual dissolution ^ of family dependency and the growth of individual obligation in its place. The Individual is steadily substituted for the Family, as the unit of which civil laws take account.
Page 188 - I have not the smallest doubt that if we had a purely democratic government here the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilization would perish, or order and prosperity would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.

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