Democracy in America/Volume 2
CONTENTS
OF THE SECOND PART.
FIRST BOOK.
INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON THE PROGRESS OF OPINION IN THE UNITED STATES.
CHAPTER I. | Page |
Philosophical method among the Americans | 1 |
CHAPTER II. | |
Of the principal source of belief among democratic nations | 8 |
CHAPTER III. | |
Why the Americans display more readiness and more taste for general ideas than their forefathers the English |
14 |
CHAPTER IV. | |
Why the Americans have never been so eager as the French for general ideas in political matters |
20 |
CHAPTER V. | |
Of the manner in which religion in the United States avails itself of democratic tendencies |
22 |
CHAPTER VI. | |
Of the progress of Roman Catholicism in the United States | 33 |
CHAPTER VII. | |
Of the cause of a leaning to Pantheism amongst democratic nations | 35 |
CHAPTER VIII. | |
The principle of equality suggests to the Americans the idea of the indefinite perfectibility of man |
37 |
CHAPTER IX. | |
The example of the Americans does not prove that a democratic people can have no aptitude and no taste for science, literature, or art |
40 |
CHAPTER X. | |
Why the Americans are more addicted to practical than to theoretical science |
47 |
CHAPTER XI. | |
Of the spirit in which the Americans cultivate the arts | 56 |
CHAPTER XII. | |
Why the Americans raise some monuments so insignificant and others so important |
63 |
CHAPTER XIII. | |
Literary characteristics of democratic ages | 65 |
CHAPTER XIV. | |
The trade of literature | 72 |
CHAPTER XV. | |
The study of Greek and Latin literature peculiarly useful in democratic communities |
73 |
CHAPTER XVI. | |
The effect of democracy on language | 76 |
CHAPTER XVII. | |
Of some of the sources of poetry amongst democratic nations | 85 |
CHAPTER XVIII. | |
Of the inflated style of American writers and orators | 93 |
CHAPTER XIX. | |
Some observations on the Drama amongst democratic nations | 95 |
CHAPTER XX. | |
Characteristics of historians in democratic ages | 102 |
CHAPTER XXI. | |
Of Parliamentary eloquence in the United States | 107 |
SECOND BOOK. INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON THE FEELINGS OF THE AMERICANS. | |
CHAPTER I. | |
Why democratic nations show a more ardent and enduring love of equality than of liberty | 113 |
CHAPTER II. | |
Of individualism in democratic communities | 118 |
CHAPTER III. | |
Individualism stronger at the close of a democratic revolution than at other periods | 121 |
CHAPTER IV. | |
That the Americans combat the effects of individualism by free institutions | 123 |
CHAPTER V. | |
Of the use which the Americans make of public associations in civil life | 128 |
CHAPTER VI. | |
Of the relation between public associations and newspapers | 134 |
CHAPTER VII. | |
Connexion of civil and political associations | 138 |
CHAPTER VIII. | |
The Americans combat individualism by the principle of interest rightly understood | 145 |
CHAPTER IX. | |
That the Americans apply the principle of interest rightly understood to religious matters | 150 |
CHAPTER X. | |
Of the taste for physical well-being in America | 153 |
CHAPTER XI. | |
Peculiar effects of the love of physical gratifications in democratic ages | 156 |
CHAPTER XII. | |
Causes of fanatical enthusiasm in some Americans | 159 |
CHAPTER XIII. | |
Causes of the restless spirit of the Americans in the midst of their prosperity | 161 |
CHAPTER XIV. | |
Taste for physical gratifications united in America to love of freedom and attention to public affairs | 166 |
CHAPTER XV. | |
That religious belief sometimes turns the Americans to immaterial pleasures | 170 |
CHAPTER XVI. | |
That excessive care of worldly welfare may impair that welfare | 176 |
CHAPTER XVII. | |
That in times marked by equality of conditions it is important to remove to a distance the object of human actions | 178 |
CHAPTER XVIII. | |
That amongst the Americans all honest callings are honourable | 182 |
CHAPTER XIX. | |
That almost all the Americans follow industrial callings | 184 |
CHAPTER XX. | |
That aristocracy may be engendered by manufacturers | 190 |
THIRD BOOK. INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON MANNERS, PROPERLY SO CALLED. | |
CHAPTER I. | |
That manners are softened as social conditions become more equal | 195 |
CHAPTER II. | |
That democracy renders the habitual intercourse of the Americans simple and easy | 201 |
CHAPTER III. | |
Why the Americans show so little sensitiveness in their own country, and are so sensitive in Europe | 204 |
CHAPTER IV. | |
Consequences of the three preceding chapters | 209 |
CHAPTER V. | |
How democracy affects the relation of masters and servants | 211 |
CHAPTER VI. | |
That democratic instititutions and manners tend to raise rents and shorten the terms of leases | 222 |
CHAPTER VII. | |
Influence of democracy on wages | 226 |
CHAPTER VIII. | |
Influence of democracy on kindred | 229 |
CHAPTER IX | |
Education of young women in the United States | 237 |
CHAPTER X. | |
The young woman in the character of a wife | 240 |
CHAPTER XI. | |
That the equality of conditions contributes to the maintenance of good morals in America | 243 |
CHAPTER XII. | |
How the Americans understand the equality of the sexes | 251 |
CHAPTER XIII. | |
That the principle of equality naturally divides the Americans into a number of small private circles | 256 |
CHAPTER XIV. | |
Some reflections on American manners | 259 |
CHAPTER XV. | |
Of the gravity of the Americans, and why it does not prevent them from often committing inconsiderate actions | 264 |
CHAPTER XVI. | |
Why the national vanity of the Americans is more restless and captious than that of the English | 268 |
CHAPTER XVII. | |
That the aspect of society in the United States is at once excited and monotonous | 271 |
CHAPTER XVIII. | |
Of honour in the United States and in democratic communities | 274 |
CHAPTER XIX. | |
Why so many ambitious men, and so little lofty ambition, are to be found in the United States | 290 |
CHAPTER XX. | |
The trade of place-hunting in certain democratic countries | 298 |
CHAPTER XXI. | |
Why great revolutions will become more rare | 301 |
CHAPTER XXII. | |
Why democratic nations are naturally desirous of peace, and democratic armies of war | 317 |
CHAPTER XXIII. | |
Which is the most warlike and most revolutionary class in democratic armies | 325 |
CHAPTER XXIV. | |
Causes which render democratic armies weaker than other armies at the outset of a campaign, and more formidable in protracted warfare | 330 |
CHAPTER XXV. | |
Of discipline in democratic armies | 335 |
CHAPTER XXVI. | |
Some considerations on war in democratic communities | 337 |
INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRATIC OPINIONS AND SENTIMENTS ON POLITICAL SOCIETY. | |
CHAPTER I. | |
That equality naturally gives men a taste for free institutions | 345 |
CHAPTER II. | |
That the notions of democratic nations on government are naturally favourable to the concentration of power | 347 |
CHAPTER III. | |
That the sentiments of democratic nations accord with their opinions in leading to concentrate political power | 351 |
CHAPTER IV. | |
Of certain peculiar and accidental causes which either lead a people to complete centralization of government, or which divert them from it | 356 |
CHAPTER V. | |
That amongst the European governments of our time the power of governments is increasing although the persons who govern are less stable | 363 |
CHAPTER VI. | |
What sort of despotism democratic nations have to fear | 378 |
CHAPTER VII. | |
Continuation of the preceding chapters | 385 |
CHAPTER VIII. | |
General survey of the subject | 396 |
Appendix | 401 |
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.
BY
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE,
TRANSLATED BY
HENRY REEVE, Esq.
A NEW EDITION,
WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTICE BY THE TRANSLATOR.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, GEEEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS.
1862.
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, PRINTER,
LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.