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" I have shown that these influences are almost null in democratic countries; they must therefore be artificially created, and this can only be accomplished by associations. When the members of an aristocratic community adopt a new opinion, or conceive... "
Democracy in America - Page 201
by Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840
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The Metropolitan, Volume 28

English literature - 1840 - 588 pages
...other. Will the administration of the country ultimately assume the management of all the manufactures, which no single citizen is able to carry on ? And...conspicuous to the eyes of the multitude are easily introduced into the minds or hearts of all around. In democratic countries the governing power alone...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 28

1840 - 598 pages
...intelligence of a democratic people would be as much endangered as its business and manufactures, it the government ever wholly usurped the place of private...conspicuous to the eyes of the multitude are easily introduced into the minds or hearts of all around. In democratic countries the governing power alone...
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The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions ...

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...assume the management of all the manufactures, which no single citizen is able to carry on 1 And if 8 time at length arrives, when, in consequence of the...conspicuous to the eyes of the multitude are easily introduced into the minds or hearts of all around. In democratic countries the governing power alone...
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Democracy in America, tr. by H. Reeve, Volume 1

Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pages
...other. Will the administration of the country ultimately assume the management of all the manufactures, which no single citizen is able to carry on ? And...conspicuous to the eyes of the multitude are easily introduced into the minds or hearts of all around. In democratic countries the governing power alone...
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Democracy in America, Volume 2

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1862 - 526 pages
...companies. Feelings and opinions are recruited, the heart is enlarged, and the human mind is developed, only by the reciprocal influence of men upon each other....conspicuous to the eyes of the multitude are easily introduced into the minds or hearts of all around. In democratic countries, the governing power alone...
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The World's Great Classics: Democracy in America, by A. de Tocqueville

Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 452 pages
...leave the helm of state to follow the plough ? The morals and the intelligence of a democratic peopie would be as much endangered as its business and manufactures,...conspicuous to the eyes of the multitude are easily introduced into the minds or hearts of all around. In democratic countries the governing power alone...
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Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution, and Society

Alexis de Tocqueville - Political Science - 1980 - 402 pages
...the reciprocal influence of men upon each other. I have shown that these influences are almost nil in democratic countries. They must therefore be artificially...accomplished by associations. When the members of an aristocracy adopt a new opinion, or conceive a new sentiment, they give it a station, as it were, beside...
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The Concept of Political Judgment

Peter J. Steinberger - Philosophy - 1993 - 328 pages
...men upon one another. I have shown that this action is almost nonexistent in democratic countries. It must therefore be artificially created. And this can only be accomplished by associations."45 Indeed, in the New England town, otherwise unrelated people become, in effect, friends...
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Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader

David C. Hammack - Business & Economics - 1998 - 508 pages
...enlarged, and the human mind is developed only by the reciprocal influence of men upon one another. I have shown that these influences are almost null...conspicuous to the eyes of the multitude are easily introduced into the minds or hearts of all around. In democratic countries the governing power alone...
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Social Capital: Critical Perspectives on Community and "Bowling Alone"

Scott L. McLean, David A. Schultz, Manfred B. Steger - Political Science - 2002 - 316 pages
...enlarged, and the human mind is developed only by the reciprocal influence of men upon one another. I have shown that these influences are almost null...and this can only be accomplished by associations" (Tocqueville 1990, II: 109). But there is more to Tocqueville's admiration of associations than meets...
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