“I take it as agreed that if the conservative movement is going to make more than a trivial and fugitive impact on the life of the nation, it will have to develop a philosophy that is systematic, that is comprehensive, that takes full and honest account of current positive knowledge, and that is, therefore, no mere repetition of dried and old chestnuts that appealed to men a generation or two ago but that have lost their flavor and freshness.”
—Eliseo Vivas, “On the Conservative Demonology,” Modern Age, Spring 1964
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