...alone ; and if his kindred still remain to him, he may be said at any rate to have lost his country. Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary...authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; * I have often asked myself what would happen if, amid the relaxation of democratic manners, and as...

...alone ; and if his kindred still remain to him, he may be said at any rate to have lost his country. Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary...that authority, its object was to prepare men for mannood; * I have often asked myself what would happen if, amid the relaxation of democratic manners,...

...alone ; and if his kindred still remain to him, he may be said at any rate to have lost his country. Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary...provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a paront. if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for mannood; * I have often asked myself...

...alone ; and if his kindred still remain to him, he may be said at any rate to have lost his country. Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary...that authority, its object was to prepare men for mannood; * I have often asked myself what would happen if, amid the relaxation of democratic manners,...

...wily egotist. The government is " an immense tutelary power," after the prophecy of De Tocqueville, " which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications,...regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authoritjr of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood ; but it...

...alone; and if his kindred still remain to him, he may be said at any rate to have lost his country. Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary...mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if ... its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks ... to keep them in perpetual childhood....

...incessantly endeavouring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures of which they glut their lives . . . Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary...power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and mild.14 Towards the end of the century considerable space is devoted to the historical and theoretical...

...children and his private friends constitute to him the whole of mankind Above this race of men stand an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself...their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare...

...citizens, he is close to them, but does not see them; he exists only in himself and for himself alone. Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary...power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratification and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident and...

...benevolent and over-centralised form of despotism. Above the democratic multitude, writes Tocqueville, 'stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes...their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular and mild' (Dem. II, 336). Metaphor truly realises here its political potential: metaphor's capacity...