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CONTENTS.
xi
CHAPTER XVIII. Page
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