Rising Conservatism Is Challenging Liberal Principles, Says Huntington

A new conservatism based on the philosophies of Neibuhr, Eliot and Bergiund is now challenging the principles of liberalism prevalent since the 18th century. Samuel P. Huntington, assistant professor of Government, said last night.

Speaking before the H.Y.R.C., Huntington said that liberals believed essentially in the idea of individual freedom. In opposition, conservatives, besides insisting on "a really passionate affirmation of the status quo," set their faith is the right and desirability of strong governmental powers.

New conservatives take a basteally different view on polities from the liberals Huntington declared. "Liberals always believed that you could go down the middle of the road between extra extrember. They

Huntington said that to a new conservative, however there are only two ways of looking at politics; the right way and the wrong way.

Faith Over Reason

The conservatives stress faith rather than reason in government. The wrong way to them is that of the rational liberal, "only on the road to a worse hell that fascism, communism, or materialism--soft-headed Utopianisre."

T. S. Eliot stated typical new conservative philosophy when he said "If one does not accept God, one is a Communist or a Fascist," Huntington said.

Huntington emphasized that conservatives are skeptical about the worth of economics, "the one field in which liberals excel." Political and moral exertions, such as national security and defense, are more important to them he said.

Referring to the implications of the new conservatism in connection with polities, he stated that he hoped the G.O.F. would take up the ideas.

"The Republican Party now operates under the handicap of sustaining individualism, but the true conservative does not object to legislative authority," he said.