 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.  Democracy in America - 117. lappuseautors: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1841Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | 1840 - 598 lapas
...be necessary that the head of the government should leave the helm of state to follow the plough ? The morals and the intelligence of a democratic people...much endangered as its business and manufactures, it the government ever wholly usurped the place of private companies. " Feelings and opinions are recruited,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1862 - 526 lapas
...be necessary that the head of the government should leave the helm of state to follow the plough ? The morals and the intelligence of a democratic people...heart is enlarged, and the human mind is developed, only by the reciprocal influence of men upon each other. I have shown that these influences are almost... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - 1893 - 392 lapas
...ultimately assume the management of all the manufactures, which no single citizen is able to carry on ? ... The morals and the intelligence of a democratic people...ever wholly usurped the place of private companies. ... A government can no more be competent to keep alive and to renew the circulation of opinions and... | |
 | Nicholas Paine Gilman - 1893 - 406 lapas
...ultimately assume the management of all the manufactures, which no single citizen is able to carry on ? ... The morals and the intelligence of a democratic people...ever wholly usurped the place of private companies. ... A government can no more be competent to keep alive and to renew the circulation of opinions and... | |
 | Guy Stevens Callender - 1909 - 852 lapas
...be necessary that the head of the government should leave the helm of state to follow the plough ? The morals and the intelligence of a democratic people...ever wholly usurped the place of private companies. . . . 1. . . In most civilized countries, the bulk of the population are poor, their daily wages hardly... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1980 - 402 lapas
...it be necessary that the head of the government should leave the helm of state to follow the plough? The morals and the intelligence of a democratic people...other. I have shown that these influences are almost nil in democratic countries. They must therefore be artificially created, and this can only be accomplished... | |
 | Helen Northen - 1995 - 448 lapas
...democratized nations, people become powerless if they do not learn voluntarily to help one another. . . . Feelings and opinions are recruited, the heart is enlarged, and the human mind is developed only by the reciprocal influence of man one upon another. ... As soon as several of the inhabitants... | |
 | Dorothy Nelkin - 1991 - 308 lapas
...according to Tocqueville ([1835]! 94 5, 117), voluntary associations provide a setting in which "[fjeelings and opinions are recruited, the heart is enlarged, and the human mind is developed." To leave the job of enriching civilization to government would result inevitably in either tyranny... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 1993 - 344 lapas
...Alexis de Tocqueville provides the classic statement of this educative power of associations: "Feelings are recruited, the heart is enlarged, and the human mind is developed only by the reciprocal influence of men on one another," and under democratic conditions this influence... | |
 | David Walsh - 1997 - 408 lapas
...invisible, although more crucial, avenue of the inner growth of the citizens in self-responsibility. "Feelings and opinions are recruited, the heart is enlarged, and the human mind is developed only by the reciprocal influence of men upon one another" (2:117). Through exercising the art of association... | |
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