On 7/23/2012 11:37 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> You insist on using the label "conservative" as though it will prove your argument.  In this you are again mistaken.  As I said, the term has no
> meaning without the context


"I will call one of these civilizations our Traditional or Authoritative Civilization. It rests upon the thing that is, and upon the thing that has 
been. It insists upon respect for custom and usage; it discourages criticism and enquiry. It is very ancient and conservative, or, going beyond 
conservation, it is reactionary. ... Contrasted with the ancient civilization, with the Traditional disposition, which accepts institutions and moral 
values as though they were a part of nature, we have what I may call—with an evident bias in its favour—the civilization of enquiry, of experimental 
knowledge, Creative and Progressive Civilization." (from the Introduction of The Pivot of Civilization)

Alan Isaac