The Roman Road is the way of the imaginative conservative, who does not throw away the all-connecting vision of childhood, and then replace it with another, “more sophisticated” way of thinking. Rather, he embraces and pays tribute to the maternal mediation of every mother near to us who has acted in place of our more ancient mother, Rome… (click the link below to view the full essay by Christopher Morrissey)

Source: Historical Consciousness and the Roman Road – The Imaginative Conservative