CEVAP:

Ever since Robert Peel’s time, conservatism has involved the view that the highest virtue in politics is to resist change until change becomes inevitable, and then to concede to it with as little fuss and as much obeisance to tradition as possible. In other words, conservatism is compatible with all manner of change, provided only that change is also continuity. Therefore, conservatism can be forced to conserve in a later generation what it would not have conserved in an earlier one.