Conservative principles

Worth pondering. Timothy Arndt writes (I admit I haven't read what he has):

The common principles of the early Conservatives of Western Europe (roughly, from Burke to Donoso Cortes) listed by Robert Nisbet in his foreword to The Works of Joseph de Maistre (Schocken, 1971).

1. God and the divine order, not the natural order, must be the starting point of any understanding of society and