This paper explores the relationship between T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) and T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), focussing on their intellectual affinities and the ways in which Eliot exploited them in his campaign for `Classicism.` Eliot consistently quoted or made references to Hulme`s texts, thus generating one or another textual network, which was, in the first place, made possible through the remarkable similarities between their intellectual trajectories: they both struggled against the mechanistic world-view at the turn of the century and embraced Henri Bergson`s life philosophy enthusiastically; however, their enthusiasm did not last long mainly because the French philosopher`s Romantic outlook was ultimately incompatible with their Classicist view. In a nutshell, Classicism stresses man`s extremely fixed nature and relies on external authorities as is fully indicated in Hulme`s and Eliot`s unreserved endorsement of royalism and Anglo-Catholicism. Eliot`s radical distrust of self or "individual talent" led him to search for something outside himself and the figure of allusion represents a literary manifestation of such a philosophical temper. Eliot repeatedly expressed his admiration for Hulme, but as I have tried to show in this paper, Old Possum also continued to invoke Hulme the poet-philosopher to promote and bolster his own cultural and literary position in deliberately strategic ways.