As Eliot suggests that “tradition is a matter of much wider significance”, “cannot be inherited” and one needs great effort to obtain it. “It involves, in the first place, the historical sense”. (1) Eliot attaches great importance to tradition. His sense of tradition is a united system which mainly involves his historical sense, strong religious beliefs and mythical methods. It represents an adherence to the past, a trend to go back to history, to adhere to tradition. History and past are viewed from the perspective of both the past and the present. (2) To Eliot, literary tradition is kept through writers’ impersonal creation and to become impersonal in writing, writers are obligated to constantly subject themselves to tradition, because it has laid down rules which established it. (3) Social tradition, in Eliot’s opinion, is established and maintained by an ideal social order. Religion and myth are two essential elements to ensure tradition and order.