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T.S. Eliot is unanimously acknowledged to have been most authentic and influential critic and poet in the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century. His choice of subject matter generally informs ethical, orthodox, conservative Christian culture under the garb of objectivity. His literary criticism in elucidating the texts is the representative voice of his age. The positivistic and pragmatic trends in the area of sciences and the Existentialism, Absurdity, Humanism and Nihilism in ethics and religion coalesced to dominate the creative expressions. The hegemonic control of such trends happened to inculcate in reading masses a secular attitude devoid of traditional essence. Besides that the liberal humanism and democratic tendencies in life formed the contemporary mindset, which was held responsible, in part, to have led to two World Wars. Eliot adopts a reactionary attitude in following the cultural tradition which stands against those dominant trends. Eliot and others of his persuasion believed that the dominant trends have caused disorder and chaos in contemporary social life, which needed, as visualized by them, immediate correction of taste. The present paper explores how Eliot foregrounds distortions and confusion and thereafter attacks those dominant trends and philosophical postulations through his conservative Faith in Christianity, Western culture and a European literary tradition.