...wily egotist. The government is " an immense tutelary power," after the prophecy of De Tocqueville, " which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications,...regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authoritjr of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood ; but it...

...incessantly endeavouring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives. Each of them, living apart, is as a stranger to the...mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if ... its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks ... to keep them in perpetual childhood....

...incessantly endeavouring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures of which they glut their lives . . . Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary...power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild.14 Towards the end of the century considerable space is devoted to the historical and theoretical...

...children and his private friends constitute to him the whole of mankind Above this race of men stand an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself...their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare...

...citizens, he is close to them, but does not see them; he exists only in himself and for himself alone. Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary...power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratification and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and...

...benevolent and over-centralised form of despotism. Above the democratic multitude, writes Tocqueville, 'stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes...their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular and mild' (Dem. II, 336). Metaphor truly realises here its political potential: metaphor's capacity...

...is close to them, but does not see them; he touches them, but he does not feel them; he exists only in himself and for himself alone; and if his kindred...secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate.55 The most fundamental characteristics of the acquisitive ethic — individualism, private pursuit...

...rate to have lost his country. Tocqueville goes on to warn about how governments then come to be seen: Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary...absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild.... For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the...

...Holmes; the glass houses of Zamyatin and Orwell . . . There were some, after all, who spotted it at once: Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon himself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute,...

...he said at any rate to have lost his country. Ahove this race of men stands an immense and mtelarv power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their...gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is ahsolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild, It would he like the authority of a parent, if, like...