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Conservatives as Philosophers

During the Liberal Era—extending, say, from about 1830 to 1930, or a few years later—the great conservative thinkers were neglected or misinterpreted. Now we live in a different time, an age as yet without a name, in which conservative and collectivistic forces contend against each other. Benthamite liberalism and Jacobin liberalism, though they survive in holes and nooks, and have their delayed-action explosions in such strange corners of the world as Java, are intellectually and politically sunk into decay.

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Conservatives as Philosophers

During the Liberal Era—extending, say, from about 1830 to 1930, or a few years later—the great conservative thinkers were neglected or misinterpreted. Now we live in a different time, an age as yet without a name, in which conservative and collectivistic forces contend against each other. Benthamite liberalism and Jacobin liberalism, though they survive in holes and nooks, and have their delayed-action explosions in such strange corners of the world as Java, are intellectually and politically sunk into decay.