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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER IX |
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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 |