In his poetry and essays, T.S. Eliot demonstrates his cultural conservatism whose first element is antirationalistic cultural gradualism and a broad view of “timeless” and “spaceless” culture. The former stresses history and cultural tradition in their “laissezfaire” organic growth; the latter emphasizes balance between “unity and diversity” of culture in the overall cultural system and “regional” or “local” “satellite cultures”. The two aspects form the essence of Eliot’s conservative view of culture as seen in his understanding of the history of literature, his aesthetic principles and poetry writing.