America, then, exhibits in her social state a most extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality in point of fortune and intellect, or, in other words, more equal in their strength, than in any other country of the world, or in any... Democracy in America - Página 41por Alexis de Tocqueville - 1843Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Walsh - 1836 - 530 páginas
...to the same method of treatment. " America, then, exhibits in her social state a most extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality...age of which history has preserved the remembrance." It may not be very flattering to our national vanity to be told that this mediocrity of acquirement... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1840 - 286 páginas
...rise, others as they descend. * * * America, then, exhibits in her social state a most extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality...of which history has preserved the remembrance."* For centuries past there has been in Great Britain a constantly increasing tendency to equality of... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1840 - 290 páginas
...rise, others as they descend. * * * America, then, exhibits in her social state a most extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality...of which history has preserved the remembrance."* For centuries past there has been in Great Britain a constantly increasing tendency to equality of... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1855 - 922 páginas
...completely disabled that we can scarcely assign to it any degree of influence in the course of affairs. 54 i phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality...social condition as this are easily deducible. It isjmpossible to believe that equality will not eventually find its way into the political world as... | |
| 1863 - 478 páginas
...has had more than half a breakfast, or ex* " America exhibits in her social state an extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality...age of which history has preserved the remembrance." — De Tocqueville, Vol. I. p. 67. It was a similar equality in Athens (in the privileged democracy)... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1898 - 990 páginas
...and especially because of the fundamental changes introduced in the laws of inheritance, there is " a greater equality in point of fortune and intellect; or, in other words, men are more equal in their strength than in any other country of the world, or in any age of which... | |
| 1898 - 908 páginas
...to the few and strong. Tocqueville noted in the Americans of his time a greater equality of property "than in any other country of the world or in any...age of which history has preserved the remembrance." But now, largely through that triplet of media; val barbarism, unequal taxation, monopoly, and the... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve - 1899 - 512 páginas
...individual character enjoy any durability. America, then, exhibits in her social state a most extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality...deducible. It is impossible to believe that equality not eventually find its way into the political world as it does everywhere else. To conceive of men... | |
| John Bigelow, Alexis de Tocqueville - 1899 - 538 páginas
...character enjoying any durability. America, then, exhibits in her social state a most extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality...age of which history has preserved the remembrance. The political consequences of such a social condition as this are easily deducible. It is impossible... | |
| Edward Thomas Devine - 1904 - 512 páginas
...periods nearly half a century apart : — America then exhibits in her social state an extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality...age of which history has preserved the remembrance. — De Tocqueville: "Democracy in America." Little outdoor relief is given, though in most states the... | |
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