![]() ![]() "Every Tory is a realist," says Keith Feiling: "he knows that there are great forces in heaven and earth that man's philosophy cannot plumb or fathom." True politics is the art of apprehending and applying the Justice which ought to prevail in a community of souls.Ģ) Affection for the proliferating variety and mystery of human existence, as opposed to the narrowing uniformity, egalitarianism, and utilitarian aims of most radical systems conservatives resist what Robert Graves calls "Logicalism" in society. A narrow rationality, what Coleridge called the Understanding, cannot of itself satisfy human needs. ![]() Political problems, at bottom, are religious and moral problems. “There are six canons of conservative thought:ġ) Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as well as conscience. ![]()
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