Democracy in America, Volumen3Saunders and Otley, 1840 |
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... communities of Europe : it has destroyed or modified all the relations which be- fore existed , and established others of a novel kind . The aspect of civil society has been no less affected by these changes than that of the political A 2.
... communities of Europe : it has destroyed or modified all the relations which be- fore existed , and established others of a novel kind . The aspect of civil society has been no less affected by these changes than that of the political A 2.
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Alexis de Tocqueville. > less affected by these changes than that of the political world . The former subject has been treated of in the work on the Democracy of America , which I published five years ago ; to examine the latter is the ...
Alexis de Tocqueville. > less affected by these changes than that of the political world . The former subject has been treated of in the work on the Democracy of America , which I published five years ago ; to examine the latter is the ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... less use which they professed should be made of it ? Why did the Reformers confine themselves so closely within the circle of religious ideas ? Why did Descartes , choosing only to apply his method to certain matters , though he had ...
... less use which they professed should be made of it ? Why did the Reformers confine themselves so closely within the circle of religious ideas ? Why did Descartes , choosing only to apply his method to certain matters , though he had ...
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... less complete , and of more ancient date , amongst the latter people , the fact may be attri- buted to two circumstances , which it is essential to have clearly understood in the first instance . It must never be forgotten that religion ...
... less complete , and of more ancient date , amongst the latter people , the fact may be attri- buted to two circumstances , which it is essential to have clearly understood in the first instance . It must never be forgotten that religion ...
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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.