Democracy in America, Volumen3Saunders and Otley, 1840 |
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... desires above and beyond the treasures of earth , and which does not naturally raise his soul to regions far above those of the senses . Nor is there any which does not impose on man some sort of duties to his kind , and thus draws him ...
... desires above and beyond the treasures of earth , and which does not naturally raise his soul to regions far above those of the senses . Nor is there any which does not impose on man some sort of duties to his kind , and thus draws him ...
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... desires which it would never have entertained if the distinctions of rank had been fixed and society at rest . In such na- entire stranger to the pleasures and toils of his master tions the servant never considers himself as an 74.
... desires which it would never have entertained if the distinctions of rank had been fixed and society at rest . In such na- entire stranger to the pleasures and toils of his master tions the servant never considers himself as an 74.
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... a moment to survey them . We had occasion , in speaking of the philoso- phical method of the American people , to make several remarks , which must here be turned to Equality begets in man the desire of judg- ing of account . 77.
... a moment to survey them . We had occasion , in speaking of the philoso- phical method of the American people , to make several remarks , which must here be turned to Equality begets in man the desire of judg- ing of account . 77.
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Alexis de Tocqueville. Equality begets in man the desire of judg- ing of everything for himself : it gives him , in all things , a taste for the tangible and the real , a contempt for tradition and for forms . These general tendencies ...
Alexis de Tocqueville. Equality begets in man the desire of judg- ing of everything for himself : it gives him , in all things , a taste for the tangible and the real , a contempt for tradition and for forms . These general tendencies ...
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... desire to utilize knowledge is one thing ; the pure desire to know is another . I do not doubt that in a few minds and far between , an ardent , inex- haustible love of truth springs up , self - sup- ported , and living in ceaseless ...
... desire to utilize knowledge is one thing ; the pure desire to know is another . I do not doubt that in a few minds and far between , an ardent , inex- haustible love of truth springs up , self - sup- ported , and living in ceaseless ...
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Página 127 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
Página 233 - In the United States, a man builds a house in which to spend his old age, and he sells it before the roof is on; he plants a garden, and lets it just as the trees are coming into bearing; he brings a field into tillage, and leaves other men to gather the crops ; he embraces a profession, and gives it up; he settles in a place, which he soon afterwards leaves, to carry his changeable longings elsewhere.
Página 90 - They will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful should be useful.
Página 204 - Nothing, in my opinion, is more deserving of our attention than the intellectual and moral associations of America. The political and industrial associations of that country strike us forcibly; but the others elude our observation, or if we discover them, we understand them imperfectly because we have hardly ever seen anything of the kind. It must be acknowledged, however, that they are as necessary to the American people as the former, and perhaps more so.
Página 201 - I have shown that these influences are almost null in democratic countries; they must therefore be artificially created, and this can only be accomplished by associations. When the members of an aristocratic community adopt a new opinion, or conceive a new sentiment, they give it a station, as it were, beside themselves, upon the lofty platform where they stand; and opinions or sentiments so conspicuous to the eyes of the multitude are easily introduced into the minds or hearts of all around. In...
Página 181 - Individualism is a mature and calm feeling, which disposes each member of the community to sever himself from the mass of his fellows and to draw apart with his family and his friends, so that after he has thus formed a little circle of his own, he willingly leaves society at large to itself.
Página 115 - The object of authors will be to astonish rather than to please, and to stir the passions more than to charm the taste. Here and there, indeed, writers will doubtless occur who will choose a different track, and who will, if they are gifted with superior abilities, succeed in finding readers, in spite of their defects or their better qualities ; but these exceptions will be rare, and even the authors who...
Página 1 - I THINK that in no country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States. The Americans have no philosophical school of their own ; and they care but little for all the schools into which Europe is divided, the very names of which are scarcely known to them.
Página 203 - As soon as several of the inhabitants of the United States have taken up an opinion or a feeling which they wish to promote in the world, they look out for mutual assistance; and as soon as they have found one another out, they combine. From that moment they are no longer isolated men, but a power seen from afar, whose actions serve for an example and whose language is listened to.
Página 234 - He who has set his heart exclusively upon the pursuit of worldly welfare is always in a hurry, for he has but a limited time at his disposal to reach it, to grasp it, and to enjoy it.