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DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA.

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