About This Book

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States.
The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s evolving politics.
Tocqueville looked to the flourishing democratic system in America as a possible model for post-revolutionary France, believing its egalitarian ideals reflected the spirit of the age - even that they were the will of God.
His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America and an indispensable authority for anyone interested in the future of democracy.



Volum 2. Contents.

PART I. Influence of Democracy on the Intellectual Movement in the United States

CHAPTER 1: Of the Philosophical Method of the Americansb
CHAPTER 2: Of the Principal Source of Beliefs among Democratic Peoplesb
CHAPTER 3: Why the Americans Show More Aptitude and Taste for General Ideas Than Their Fathers the English
CHAPTER 4: Why the Americans Have Never Been as Passionate as the French about General Ideas in Political Matters
CHAPTER 5: How, in the United States, Religion Knows How to Make Use of Democratic Instinctsb
CHAPTER 6: Of the Progress of Catholicism in the United States
CHAPTER 7: What Makes the Minds of Democratic Peoples Incline toward Pantheisma
CHAPTER 8: How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Manb
CHAPTER 9: How the Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Cannot Have Aptitude and Taste for the Sciences, Literature, and the Artsb
CHAPTER 10: Why the Americans Are More Attached to the Application of the Sciences Than to the Theoryb
CHAPTER 11: In What Spirit the Americans Cultivate the Artsb
CHAPTER 12: Why the Americans Erect Such Small and Such Large Monuments at the Same Time
CHAPTER 13: Literary Physiognomy of Democratic Centuries
CHAPTER 14: Of the Literary Industryb
CHAPTER 15: Why the Study of Greek and Latin Literature Is Particularly Useful in Democratic Societies
CHAPTER 16: How American Democracy Has Modified the English Languageb
CHAPTER 17: Of Some Sources of Poetry among Democratic Nationsb
CHAPTER 18: Why American Writers and Orators Are Often Bombasticb
CHAPTER 19: Some Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoplesb
CHAPTER 20: Of Some Tendencies Particular to Historians in Democratic Centuriesb
CHAPTER 21: Of Parliamentary Eloquence in the United Statesb

PART II. Influence of Democracy on the Sentiments of the Americansa

CHAPTER 1: Why Democratic Peoples Show a More Ardent and More Enduring Love for Equality Than for Libertyb
CHAPTER 2: Of Individualism in Democratic Countries
CHAPTER 3: How Individualism Is Greater at the End of a Democratic Revolution than at Another Timea
CHAPTER 4: How the Americans Combat Individualism with Free Institutionsb
CHAPTER 5: Of the Use That Americans Make of Association in Civil Lifeb
[Of the Manner in Which American Governments Act toward Associations]t
CHAPTER 6: Of the Relation between Associations and Newspapersb
CHAPTER 7: Relations between Civil Associations and Political Associationsb
CHAPTER 8: How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Doctrine of Interest Well Understoodb
CHAPTER 9: How the Americans Apply the Doctrine of Interest Well Understood in the Matter of Religionb
CHAPTER 10: Of the Taste for Material Well-Being in Americab
CHAPTER 11: Of the Particular Effects Produced by the Love of Material Enjoyments in Democratic Centuriesb
CHAPTER 12: Why Certain Americans Exhibit So Excited a Spiritualismb
CHAPTER 13: Why the Americans Appear So Restless Amid Their Well-Being
CHAPTER 14: How the Taste for Material Enjoyments Is United, among the Americans, with the Love of Liberty and Concern for Public Affairs
CHAPTER 15: How from Time to Time Religious Beliefs Divert the Soul of the Americans toward Non-Material Enjoymentsb
CHAPTER 16: How the Excessive Love of Well-Being Can Harm Well-Beingb
CHAPTER 17: How, in Times of Equality and Doubt, It Is Important to Push Back the Goal of Human Actionsb
CHAPTER 18: Why, among the Americans, All Honest Professions Are Considered Honorableb
CHAPTER 19: What Makes Nearly All Americans Tend toward Industrial Professions
CHAPTER 20: How Aristocracy Could Emerge from Industryb

PART Ⅲ. Influence of Democracy on Mores Properly So Called

CHAPTER 1: How Mores Become Milder as Conditions Become Equal
CHAPTER 2: How Democracy Makes the Habitual Relations of the Americans Simpler and Easierb
CHAPTER 3: Why the Americans Have So Little Susceptibility in Their Country and Show Such Susceptibility in Oursb
CHAPTER 4: Consequences of the Three Preceding Chapters
CHAPTER 5: How Democracy Modifies the Relationships of Servant and Master
CHAPTER 6: How Democratic Institutions and Mores Tend to Raise the Cost and Shorten the Length of Leases
CHAPTER 7: Influence of Democracy on Salaries
CHAPTER 8: Influence of Democracy on the Familyb
CHAPTER 9: Education of Young Girls in the United Statesb
CHAPTER 10: How the Young Girl Is Found Again in the Features of the Wife
CHAPTER 11: How Equality of Conditions Contributes to Maintaining Good Morals in America
CHAPTER 12: How the Americans Understand the Equality of Man and of Womanb
CHAPTER 13: How Equality Divides the Americans Naturally into a Multitude of Small Particular Societiesb
CHAPTER 14: Some Reflections on American Mannersb
CHAPTER 15: Of the Gravity of Americans and Why It Does Not Prevent Them from Often Doing Thoughtless Thingsb
CHAPTER 16: Why the National Vanity of the Americans Is More Anxious and More Quarrelsome Than That of the Englishb
CHAPTER 17: How the Appearance of Society in the United States Is at the Very Same Time Agitated and Monotonousb
CHAPTER 18: Of Honor in the United States and in Democratic Societies1
CHAPTER 19: Why in the United States You Find So Many Ambitious Men and So Few Great Ambitionsb
CHAPTER 20: Of Positions Becoming an Industry among Certain Democratic Nations
CHAPTER 21: Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rareb
CHAPTER 22: Why Democratic Peoples Naturally Desire Peace and Democratic Armies Naturally Desire War
CHAPTER 23: Which Class, in Democratic Armies, Is the Most Warlike and the Most Revolutionary
CHAPTER 24: What Makes Democratic Armies Weaker Than Other Armies While Beginning a Military Campaign and More Formidable When the War Is Prolongedb
CHAPTER 25: Of Discipline in Democratic Armies
CHAPTER 26: Some Considerations on War in Democratic Societies

PART Ⅳ. Of the Influence That Democratic Ideas and Sentiments Exercise on Political Societyb

CHAPTER 1: Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions
CHAPTER 2: That the Ideas of Democratic Peoples in Matters of Government Naturally Favor the Concentration of Powersb
CHAPTER 3: That the Sentiments of Democratic Peoples Are in Agreement with Their Ideas for Bringing Them to Concentrate Powera
CHAPTER 4: Of Some Particular and Accidental Causes That End up Leading a Democratic People to Centralize Power or That Turn Them Away from Doing Sob
CHAPTER 5: That among the European Nations of Today the Sovereign Power Increases Although Sovereigns Are Less Stablea
CHAPTER 6: What Type of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Feara
CHAPTER 7: Continuation of the Preceding Chapters
CHAPTER 8: General View of the Subjectb

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