And of all the three it is infinitely the hardest to express.

Perhaps it might be put thus: that we need watchfulness even in Utopia, lest we fall from Utopia as we fell from Eden.
We have remarked that one reason offered for being a progressive is that things naturally tend to grow better.

But the only real reason for being a progressive is that things naturally tend to grow worse.

The corruption in things is not only the best argument for being progressive; it is also the only argument against being conservative.
The conservative theory would really be quite sweeping and unanswerable if it were not for this one fact.

But all conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are.