Change the following sentences into past tenseTracing the history of conservative thought it goes back at least to the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century In 1594 Richard Hoo

Tracing the history of conservative thought, it went back at least to the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century. In 1594, Richard Hooke published "On the Laws of Church Institutions", in which the main beliefs of conservatism were prominently and clearly stated (Nuttall, 2019). Conservatism as a systemic political attitude was born out of the condemnation of the French Revolution of 1789. Edmund Burke's Meditations on the French Revolution, published in 1790, was widely regarded as the purest source of fundamental principles of conservatism (Horton, 2018). Britain was the birthplace of conservatism. From the perspective of philosophical origin, it was closely related to the long tradition of British empiricism. In Britain, conservative ideas had two sources, one was religious and the other was secular. The former was represented by Richard Hooke, Edward Hyde, Clarendon, Samuel Johnson, Burke, Coleridge, and Cardinal Newman, the leaders of the Oxford movement, and the latter was represented by Harry Farke Si, Bolingbroke, and David Hume (Lancaster, 2022).

In each specific historical period and environment, the basic program of the Conservative Party changed. This was not a new change, but a response to a new change. In addition, as a symbol of the party creed, the Conservative Party leader played a decisive role at every critical moment, exerting a major influence on conservative politics and ideology. The evolution of British conservatism could be divided into five phases, namely, the Peelian paternalism, the Conservative Democratic period, the interwar period, the middle way period, and the anti-collectivist period (Broockman et al., 2021).