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Property, love of, prevalent in the United States, ii. 272.
Protestanism, its tendency to Roman Catholicism, ii. 29.
Protracted war, dangerous to a republic, ii. 285.
Provincial institutions more necessary in proportion as the social condition becomes more democratic, i. 99.
Public associations, in civil life, among the Americans, their uses, &c., ii. 114. In England and America compared, ii. 115. Their power and influence, ii. 116. The duty of a government to foster them, ii. 117.
Public officers under the control of the democracy in the United States, i. 223. Their remunerations, i. 224. Arbitrary power of magistrates in America greater than in absolute monarchies, i. 225. In New England, vide note, i. 227. In aristocratic countries compared with democratic, their motives, &c., ii. 162.
Public opinion, force of, in the United States, ii. 277. Its progress in the world at large, ii. 278. Causes of its changes illustrated, ii. 275. Its restricted influence in America, ii. 2. Its influence on a democratic people, ii. 9. Its foundation in the principle of equality, ii. 11.
Public Spirit in the United States, i. 262. Patriotism of instincts and reflection, their respective characteristics, i. 262. That nations ought to acquire the second when the first has disappeared, i. 263. Efforts of the Americans to acquire it, i. 263. Individual interest, its intimate connexion with that of the country, i. 264.
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Races, the, which inhabit the territory of the United States, their present condition, and probable future destiny, i. 361.
Racine, his preface to Britannicus, &c., ii. 85.
Rank, military degrees of, in a republic inalienable, ii. 288.
Raphael, remarks on some pictures of, ii. 53.
Religion and liberty, incorporated in the first institutions of New England, i. 43. Principal causes which render religion powerful in America, i. 336. Care taken to separate church and state, i. 337. The laws, public opinion, and even the clergy, concur to promote this end, i. 337. Influence of it on the mind in the United States attributable to this, i. 338. What the natural state of men with regard to it at the present time, i. 342. What the peculiar and incidental causes which prevent men in certain countries from arriving at this state, i. 343. Fewer external forms
