The durability of Conservatism has depended, to a great extent, on it being a disposition rather than a philosophy. What marks Conservatives out, across the generations, and whatever the environment they operate in, is an attitude of mind rather than an adherence to dogma. And that disposition - skeptical, cautious, pragmatic, sensitive to the local and the particular - has been politically successful because it has been in tune with human nature.

Michael Gove