Thomas Stearns Eliot was born into an intelligently conventional family in St. ... A great innovator in poetry, he became a great conservative in ethics and politics. As Eliot expressed this occurrence of decadence as the “permanent things” – those lasting truths and ways of life and standards of order are soaked in the flood of sensual eagerness and ideological passion. ... Eliot was opposed to the diffusion of Marxism and other ideologies among the intelligentsia. ... Eliot believed that a nation should not have full unity or disunity because both of them can lead to tyranny.
Behind the virulent ideologies, substitutes for religion, in the 20th century, behind the feeble politics of liberalism, behind the ineffectuality of conservatives, Eliot perceived, lay a refusal to admit ethics and theology to political thinking.
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