...1841. THE CONSERVATIVE. *" I "'HE two parties which divide the state, the party of Con_|^ servatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed...world ever since it was made. This quarrel is the subject-of civil history. The conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies...

...CONSERVATIVE, A LECTURE DELIVERED AT TUB MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTON, DECEMBER 9, 1841. THE CONSERVATIVE. THE two parties which divide the state^ the party...of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possesslbiT'oTTKe world ever since it was made. This quarrel is "the "subject of civil history. The...

...CONSERVATIVE. A LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTON, DECEHBEE 9, 1841. THE CONSERVATIVE. THE two parties which divide the state, the party...made. This quarrel is the subject of civil history. Tlie conservative party established the reverend hierarchies and monarchies of the most ancient world....

...CONSERVATIVE. A LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTON, DECJU1BEB 9, 1841 THE CONSERVATIVE. THE two parties which divide the state, the party...and colony, of old usage and accommodation to new farts, of the rich and the poor, reappears in all countries and times. The war rages not only in battle-fields....

...LECTURE DELIVERED AT Till-: MASONIC TEMPLE, BOSTON, DKi'KMllUl D, ISH THE CONSERVATIVE. TilE two partics which divide the state, the party of Conservatism...history. The conservative party established the reverend hicrarehics and monarehics of the most ancicnt world. The battle of patrician and plebcian, of parent...

...observed, with his usual ministerial good will, that the party of conservatism and the party of innovation "have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made." The conflict, he said, is deeply seated in the human constitution, which is no doubt true. But Emerson's...

...Party in the House of Commons." 1378 There can be but two great political parties in this country. 1379 The two parties which divide the state, the party...the possession of the world ever since it was made. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, "The Conservative," lecture delivered at the Masonic Temple, Boston, Massachusetts,...

...cultural war of his own time was simply the current version of a struggle endemic to human society: "The two parties which divide the state, the party...Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old ... It is the opposition of Past and Future, of Memory and Hope, of the Understanding and the Reason....

...measured incrementally. Advances occur in fits and turns; watersheds alternate with retrenchments. "The two parties which divide the state, the party...Conservatism and that of Innovation are very old. . . . Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative," Ralph Waldo Emerson observed in 1841. One set...

...world seems an abuse of the patience of God."17 The party of conservatism and the party of innovation "have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made," Ralph Waldo Emerson observed in 1841. The conflict, he said, is deeply seated in the human constitution....