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Why the Americans raise some monuments so insignifi-
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The study of Greek and Latin literature peculiarly use-
ful in democratic communities

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The effect of democracy on language

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CHAPTER XVII.

Of some of the sources of poetry amongst democratic

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Of the inflated style of American writers and orators 159

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CHAPTER III.

Individualism stronger at the close of a democratic revolution than at other periods

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That the Americans combat the effects of individualism

by free institutions

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Of the use which the Americans make of public associations in civil life

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Of the relation between public associations and news

papers

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Connexion of civil and political associations..

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The Americans combat individualism by the principle of interest rightly understood...

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That the Americans apply the principle of interest rightly understood to religious matters

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Causes of the restless spirit of the Americans in the midst of their prosperity...

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Taste for physical gratifications united in America to love of freedom and attention to public affairs

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That religious belief sometimes turns the Americans to immaterial pleasures

CHAPTER XVI.

That excessive care of worldly welfare may impair that welfare..

CHAPTER XVII.

That at times marked by equality of conditions it is important to remove to a distance the object of human

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