Aphrodite's dress was admirable for summer, but in winter seemed obstinate conservatism; and why should Pallas make herself a fright with her Gorgon helmet, now that it no longer frightened anybody?

It broke up the traditional conservatism of astronomers, which had almost refused to regard as possible the existence of any planets beyond the orbit of Saturn, because for so many years none had revealed themselves to the watchful gaze.

Advancing years brought conservatism, and they became in time loyal Tories and orthodox churchmen.

At the close of the first decade she had compelled conservatism to yield its ground so far as to permit women to participate in all debates, deliver essays, vote, and hold honored positions as officers.

No need to mention that I am far from considering conservatism as a dogma, which no one is allowed to touch or to criticise.

Finally, some reformers criticized conservatism purely on the basis of Chinese thought.

Ignorant critics call the spirit thus engendered 'professional conservatism'; the fact being that change is not objected tois even welcomed, however frequent it may be, provided only that it is suggested from inside.

The conservation of great estates, entailing a certain conservatism in the treatment of farm lands from generation to generation, and the upholding, too, of game-preserves, however obnoxious to the land reformer, have been all to the good of the nature-lover.

Her Virginian blood was cool, high-bred; she had learned conservatism in her cradle.

A haunting fear of civil discord, and purblind conservatism in the commercial castes, are responsible for the dearth of capital.

Among European nations England has long represented intelligent conservatism, and at the heart of her conservatism lay the House of Lords.

Now, in my view of the matter, the two most dangerous of all parties in a state, are that which sets up conservatism as its standard, and that which sets up progress: the one is for preserving things of which it would be better to be rid, while the other crushes all that is necessary and useful in its headlong course.

Old creeds end in being dead formulas, which no longer aid but distort and arrest the general mind; while the State-churches administering them, come to be instruments for subsidising conservatism and repressing progress.

But to upset the almost immovable English conservatism, to teach the nation new ways of thought and feeling, in a generation!

No American could fail to admire this conservatism who appreciates national individuality.

During the past three thousand years much has been done to weaken this conservatism by putting an end to the state of things which produced it.