Against the impersonal despotism of the latter, conservatism becomes the ally of liberalism. If the brakes inherited from the past finally lost their hold, there would be nothing left to impede the advent of the totalitarian State. Thus an optimistic interpretation of history with the liberation of humanity as the ultimate goal is replaced by a pessimistic version according to which totalitarianism, the enslavement of mankind body and soul, is the inevitable result of a movement which begins with the abolition of ancient wrongs and ends with the destruction of every human liberty.
