Appeal to Conservatives Author:Auguste Comte 1889. The character and object of this work may be indicated by an examination of the general history of the term Conservative, which it incorporates with the most advanced policy. This name, the property of the provisional party which must prevail until the final translation is fully entered upon, has, during the half century of its political e... more »xistence, naturally followed a course conformable to the development of the situation in which it arose.« less