To others and themselves the British have a reputation for being conservative—not in the narrow political sense, but in the sense of adherence to accepted ideas and unwilling to question them. The reputation comes partly from their 1.
　　For 900 years they have suffered 2invasion nor revolution (except in 1649 and 1688) nor disastrous defeat in 3.
　　Their monarchy (君主政体) survives without serious question. Under its normal 4 political arrangements have been so stable that except for the 5interruptions in the seventeenth century, they have been adopted throughout 6centuries to meet changing needs without violent changes. Britain, in 1978, was 7in managing without a written constitution; some fragmentary definitions of 1688 still 8. There had been bitter quarrels, social and economic as well 9political, but the quarrels had been settled, usually 10compromise. The underlying continuity had not been broken.
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