An introduction to Conservatism; Understanding the importance of Nation/race/communal living (Above are my words.Below is a quotation.) Society is a living organism with roots deep in the past. The true community, the conservative like to say, is a tree, not a not a machine. It rose to its present strength and glory through centuries of growth, and men must forbear to think of it as a mechanical contrivance that can be dismantled and reassembled in one generation. Not fiat but prescription, not the open hand of experiment but the hidden hand of custom, is the chief creative force in the social process. Society is cellular. It is not an agglomeration of lonely individuals, but a grand union of functional groups. Man is a social animal whose best interests are served by cooperating with other men; Indeed he has no real meaning except as a contributing member of his family, church, local community, and at certain stages of historical development occupational association. The group is important not only because it gives life.work,comfort, and spiritual support, to the individual, but because it joins with thousands of other groups to form the one really stubborn roadblock against the march of the all-powerful state, P.27 Rossiter Clinton, Conservatism in America..
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