ABSTRACT
Inquiring reporters scurry about the country and note in wonder "the new conservative trend". This public attention to the conservative philosophy is something new for people's day. But the feeling for the values of conservatism has been abiding in the people all along. In large part it was hidden by the cloak of language. For conservatism is not a policy; nor is it a program to solve economic or political problems. It is hardly more than an instinctive belief that today's society is built on several thousand years and that in those years men have found things they should fasten to. Out of this grows not opposition to a change in political institutions or in economic methods but an awareness that in too hasty flight from the old people can flee to evils people know not of. The instinct to conserve, people think, never left the American people.
