BY

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE.

TRANSLATED BY

HENRY REEVE, Esq.

EDITED, WITH NOTES,

THE TRANSLATION REVISED AND IN GREAT PART REWRITTEN, AND THE ADDITIONS

MADE TO THE RECENT PARIS EDITIONS NOW FIRST TRANSLATED,

BY FRANCIS BOWEN,

ALFORD PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

VOL. I.

THIRD EDITION.

CAMBRIDGE:

SEVER AND FRANCIS.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by

JOHN BARTLETT,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.