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TABLE OF CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

FIRST BOOK.

INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON THE PROGRESS OF
OPINION IN THE UNITED STATES.

CHAPTER I.

Philosophical method among the Americans..

CHAPTER II.

Of the principal source of belief among democratic na-

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CHAPTER III.

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Why the Americans display more readiness and more
taste for general ideas than their forefathers the En-
glish..

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CHAPTER IV.

Why the Americans have never been so eager as the
French for general ideas in political matters......

CHAPTER V.

Of the manner in which religion in the United States
avails itself of democratic tendencies..

CHAPTER VI.

Of the progress of Roman Catholicism in the United

States

CHAPTER VII.

Of the cause of a leaning to Pantheism amongst demo-
cratic nations

CHAPTER VIII.

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The principle of equality suggests to the Americans the
idea of the indefinite perfectibility of man

CHAPTER IX.

The example of the Americans does not prove that a de-
mocratic people can have no aptitude and no taste for

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CHAPTER X.

Why the Americans are more addicted to practical than
to theoretical science

CHAPTER XI.

Concerning the spirit in which the Americans cultivate
the arts

CHAPTER XII.

Why the Americans raise some monuments so insignifi-
cant and others so important...

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The study of Greek and Latin literature peculiarly use-
ful in democratic communities

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CHAPTER XVI.

The effect of democracy on language

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CHAPTER XVII.

Of some of the sources of poetry amongst democratic

CHAPTER III.

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Why the Americans display more readiness and more
taste for general ideas than their forefathers the En-
glish...

21

CHAPTER IV.

Why the Americans have never been so eager as the
French for general ideas in political matters.......

CHAPTER V.

Of the manner in which religion in the United States
avails itself of democratic tendencies...

CHAPTER VI.

Of the progress of Roman Catholicism in the United

States

CHAPTER VII.

Of the cause of a leaning to Pantheism amongst demo-
cratic nations

CHAPTER VIII.

The principle of equality suggests to the Americans the
idea of the indefinite perfectibility of man

CHAPTER IX.

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The example of the Americans does not prove that a de-

mocratic people can have no aptitude and no taste for

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57

60

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