Nature gives the middle aged man judgment, experience and conservatism.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
The older interpretation, which even Pater adopted in his Greek Studies, that Euripides wrote the play as a repentance for his liberal views and to signify his return to the conservatism of the Greek religion, is no longer held.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
His desire for change was limited by a strong though implicit conservatism.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen