The conscience of a majority [antikvár]

IntroductionIt has now been ten years since my first political book, "Con-science of a Conservative," was printed. In that decade, tremendous events have occurredsome tragic, some inspiring, some monumental and they have been accompanied by enormous changes, some so great that the President of the United States saw fit to rank them in relation to Creation itself. But man himself has not changed. He is still the complex, material and spiritual being who incorporates in one nature all the elements of love and hate, unselfishness and greed, kindness and cruelty, that he has always possessed.The nature of man and the application of political philosophies to his nature provided much of the substance for the "Conscience of a Conservative."That book presented to American conservatives a challenge which dared them "to demonstrate the bearing of a proven philosophy on the problems of our time." It stressed the fact that despite signs of a conservative revival among the people of the United States, the radical ideas that were promoted by the New Deal and the Fair Deal under the guise of liberalism still dominated the councils of our national government.Very simply, the "Conscience" was an attempt to bridge the gap between theory and fact. It was an attempt to examine and answer the question of why the American peopleadmittedly oriented to conservative principleshad been unable to translate their views into appropriate political action. Or as I put it in that earlier book: