Conservatism, indisposition to change established laws and customs that have wrought beneficially in the past and contributed to the welfare of the country; in practical politics often a very different thing, and regarded by Carlyle in his time “a portentous enbodied sham; accursed of God, and doomed to destruction, as all lies are.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Conservation of Energy * Considérant, Victor Prosper