Conservatives and Religion: A Dilemma

The Liberal, some one has well said, is the Jacobin sans guillotine. He exhibits the same itch for incessant innovation, the same contempt for history, the same infatuation with self-sufficient human reason, the same penchant for rationalistic blueprints along which to “new-model” the body politic, the same confidence in the omnipresent, omnicompetent state. The Liberal, however, is frightened at the violence and terror of Jacobinism; he hopes to accomplish Jacobin ends without Jacobin means to make the om-elette (as the Jacobin tauntingly reminds him) without breaking the eggs.

Herberg