"The intelligent conservative does not mistake formlessness for emancipation, as the Existentialist does; nor does he confound system with achievement, as the Marxist does. The conservative knows that in religion, truly understood, the creative spirit finds a support of immense value. At the very moment when religion sets about its task of sustaining the soul of civilization, religion also undertakes the work of nurturing the creative spirit. In religion, as in education, the test of truth is the power of those permanent principles which give motive to creative thought and creative act. Conservatism and creative energy belong together; they never can exist apart. Perhaps an understanding of this truth is the most pressing need of our bewildered age."--Lynn Harold Hough, 1957
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