ABSTRACT
The American Revolution, the conservative counter revolution of 1776 and 1787, made possible the victory of the conservative forces in England who found the transition to the free mercantile society of the nineteenth century, and who overcame materially and spiritually the totalitarianism of the French Revolution. Even if England should find the conservative transition to an industrial society—and there are many promising signs in wartime England today—her counterrevolution will be successful only if it releases conservative forces in America. For only the United States of America can find the nontotalitarian, nonrevolutionary way to a free industrial society which is the absolutely certain—and at the same time the only—way to overcome totalitarianism. The totalitarians cannot afford any self-government; they cannot even afford to allow the least amount of indifference or of tolerance in socially neutral and indifferent spheres.
