Conservatism Clings To What Has Been Established,

Inertia Is The First Law Of History, As It Is Of Physics.

By No Amount Of Reasoning Can We Altogether Eliminate All Contingency From Our World. Moreover, Pure Speculation Alone Will Not Enable Us To Get A Determinate Picture Of The Existing World. We Must Eliminate Some Of The Conflicting Possibilities, And This Can Be Brought About Only By Experiment And Observation.

If Religion Cannot Restrain Evil, It Cannot Claim Effective Power For Good.

It Has Generally Been Assumed That Of Two Opposing Systems Of Philosophy, E.g., Realism And Idealism, One Only Can Be True And One Must Be False; And So Philosophers Have Been Hopelessly Divided On The Question, Which Is The True One.

Small Groups Or Communities May Be Far More Oppressive To The Individual Than Larger Ones. Men Are In Many Ways Freer In Large Cities Than In Small Villages.