vi CONTENTS

3. The rights of minorities: Calhoun 193

4. The valor of the South 209

VI LIBERAL CONSERVATIVES: COOPER AND

TOCQUEVILLE

1. Burke's influence upon liberalism 213

2. Fenimore Cooper and a gentleman's

America 216

3. Tocqueville on democratic despotism 225

4. Democratic prudence 239

VII TRANSITIONAL CONSERVATISM: NEW

ENGLAND SKETCHES

1. Industrialism as a leveller 249

2. John Quincy Adams and progress:

his aspirations and his failure 255

3. The illusions of transcendentalism 266

4. Brownson on the conservative power

of Catholicism 272

5. Nathaniel Hawthorne: society and sin 278

VlII CONSERVATISM WITH IMAGINATION:

DISRAELI AND NEWMAN

1. Marx's materialism; and the fruits of

liberalism 290

2. Disraeli and Tory loyalties 297

3. Newman: the sources of knowledge

and the idea of education 312

4. The age of discussion: Bagehot 330

IX LEGAL AND HISTORICAL CONSERVATISM:

A TIME OF FOREBODING

1. Liberalism and collectivism:

John Stuart Mill, Comte, and

positivism 334

2. Stephen on the ends of life and

politics 340

3. Maine: status and contract 354

4. Lecky: illiberal democracy 368

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