To conserve is to preserve the status quo and resist change; revolutionary is to desire change, usually by violent means. Suppose that a certain country had a most agreeable constitution and liberty, but that this liberty was not to the liking of certain men who liked to oppress their fellow-men and to take undeserved advantage of them, and that these men determined to abolish the constitution and to introduce despotism through conspiracy. All the friends of liberty in this country will certainly wish to preserve their good constitution; they will therefore be conservative, but all absolutists will be revolutionary. (Karel Havlíček)   The now-classical conservatism of the 18th and 19th centuries, seeking to preserve feudalism and Christianity, gradually took on