 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 500 páginas
...are comprised within the great unity of Christianity, and Christian morality is everywhere the same. It may be believed without unfairness, that a certain...in which the Christian religion retains a greater in. fluence over the souls of men than in America ; and there can be no greater proof of its utility,... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - 1840 - 494 páginas
...most enlightened nations in the world, fulfils all the outward duties of religion with fervor."J " Religion in America takes no direct part in the government...men than in America ; and there can be no greater * Democracy in America, page 292. f Ib. p 295. $ Ib. p. 289. § Ib. p. 286. 2*2 proof of its utility,... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1840 - 536 páginas
...from among ourselves — carried back to the old world no such report. His deliberate testimony is, " There is no country in the whole world, in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America ; and," he adds like a true philosopher, " there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity... | |
 | 1840 - 534 páginas
...from among ourselves — carried back to the old world no such report. His deliberate testimony is, " There is no country in the whole world, in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America ; and," he adds like a true philosopher, " there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity... | |
 | 1840 - 1078 páginas
...from among ourselves — carried back to the old world no such report. His deliberate testimony is, " There is no country in the whole world, in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America ; and," he adds like a true philosopher, " there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1850 - 256 páginas
...but it directs the manners of the community, and by regulating domestic life, it regulates the State. There is no country in the whole world, in which the...influence over the souls of men, than in America." The indispensable necessity of Christianity as a conservative power, in view of our peculiar character... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 páginas
...form of worship, from habit more than from conviction. In the United States the sovereign authority ui religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common...can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformic y to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1851 - 136 páginas
...strongly contradicted by other testimony, fully worthy of credit. Do Tocqueville, for example, says, " In the United States the sovereign authority is religious,...influence over the souls of men than in America."* It is also inconsistent with the Captain's own admissions. How, for example, can this statement be... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 páginas
...States. De Tocqueville asserts, that " there is no country in the whole world in which the Christiaa religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America ;" and he adds — " There can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity to human nature,... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - 1859 - 162 páginas
...manners of the community, and by regulating domestic life, it regulates the State. Nor is there any country in the whole world, in which the Christian...utility, and of its conformity to human nature, than the fact that its influence is here felt most powerfully over the most enlightened and free nation... | |
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States, the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America... 
