The conservatism of Arnstadt received a severe shock--a dreadful experience, doubtless, to the quiet German town.
We trace in him accordingly an aristocratic and legal tone of mind, which naturally took pleasure in England and the law-abiding conservatism of her constitution, as it appeared to him in the middle of the eighteenth century.
We do not acknowledge Poninski for marshal," replied Reyten; and seeing many of the members about to retire, he placed himself before the door with his arms crossed, and attempted to stop the deserters.
We give him the honor of this without hesitation; although the English have claimed it for their countryman, Dr.
The early Greeks, so far as known, observed but a single phenomenon in connection with it--the electrification of amber by friction.
And it is true that conservatism and timidity are never so hateful and harmful as in the scholar.
You may perhaps remember how Wendell Phillips, in his great Harvard address on "The Scholar and the Republic" reproached some men of learning for their conservatism and timidity, their backwardness in reform.
The testimony of Polybius (from the close of the second century) to Roman religious conservatism is emphatic enough.
To this must be added the peculiar Roman mixture of mobility and conservatism in religious matters.
The basis of his Conservatism was always the danger of undermining a system which had answered so well.
But though Sir Walter persuaded himself that his Conservatism was all founded in legitimate distrust of reckless change, there is evidence, I think, that at times at least it was due to elements less noble.
It quickly quarrelled with and overthrew the Provinces, and became identified with Conservatismas that term is understood in New Zealand.
Moreover, experience showed that Conservatism was apt to strengthen in the nominated legislator's mind with advancing years.
There is a noble Conservatism as well as an ignoble.
It set aside all the precedents of the empire, and that a woman should reign directly, instead of indirectly, stirred the spirit of conservatism to its depths.
The wild declarations and extremes practiced by the Committee of Safety in the French Revolution were revolting to any man affected by ordinary humane considerations and had in fact a remarkable effect in strengthening conservatism in England.
His was a conservatism of the intense and passionate sort; not the choice of his judgment, but the deepest element of his life.
Such citadels of orthodoxy, such Gibraltars of conservatism as Archie was, were almost all the elders of St. Cuthbert's.
Again, the Guardian's reputation for conservatism made Cuyler's task the harder.
I hope I'm conservative enough, but with all due respect to Mr. Wintermuth, what he calls conservatism often strikes me as dry rot.
With strong caution and conservatism in his nature, he was in no danger of attempting rash experiments, or of resorting to the empiricism of statesmanship.
Although his Administration was in its infancy, President Garfield had already met the confidence of his country in the integrity of his purposes, the moderation, soundness and conservatism of his policy.
Thus the transmission of the mores comes to be a process embodying the greatest conservatism and the least likelihood of change.
So the individuality and conservatism of the farmer, his failure to keep pace with the inhabitant of the town and city, Galpin assigns to deficiency in social contacts.
Putney conservatism expelled it, and a Perfectionist Community, just begun at Oneida under the influence of the Putney school, received it.
But it is clearly a Bible principle; and we must place it on high, above all others, as the palladium of conservatism in the introduction of the new social order.
It is thus that he proceeds in diagnosing a population as to the degree of conservatism and to discover what the ideal community should be.
Suppose there come social changes which alter the conservatism and civic habits of many years--changes which foster a spirit of public service, and stimulate civic pride!
Indeed the usual condition of the body politic is immobility, conservatism and "determined resistance to change.
The conservatism of the masses is of a different kind.
We must not be misled by the conservatism of castes and aristocracies, who resist change of customs and institutions by virtue of which they hold social power.
It was kept up by the conservatism and pertinacity of religious usage until a later time and another set of conditions, when it became vicious.
For decades Japan will present an interesting study of mountaineerconservatism and ultra-liberal city life.
In the past, the conservatism of women has been a mighty obstacle in the path of progress.
Their conservatism is usually of the most unreasoning kind, and the tenacity with which they cling to favorite prejudices is rarely overcome either by argument or appeal.
The intense conservatismin religion for which they have become proverbial is fully confirmed by facts.
Nevertheless it would be absurd to attribute all the individualism to science and all the conservatism to religion.
But when I say that Conservatism is mainly due to want of imagination, I mean more than that.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conservatism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
