...religious activities are all included. Indeed, in addition to the division of labour, he refers to 'associations of a thousand other kinds, religious,...futile, general or restricted, enormous or diminutive ... to give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books,...

...voluntary societies performed things that looked remarkably like what governments could and should do: "The Americans make associations to give entertainments,...manner they found hospitals, prisons, and schools. . . . Wherever at the head of some new undertaking you see the government in France, or a man of rank...

...Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831, he remarked, 'The Americans make association to give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build...manner they found hospitals, prisons, and schools" (Tocqueville 1945, 2:1 14). Schoolboy sports would be no exception. In America, the earliest organized...

...to their fellow creatures',121 understanding that collective selfhelp serves their own interests:122 to 'give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build...diffuse books, to send missionaries to the antipodes . . . [and to] found hospitals, prisons, and schools'.123 Both duty and 116 DiA, 2. 129-35. 117 This...

...all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations," Tocqueville reported. "The Americans make associations to give entertainments,...in this manner they found hospitals, prisons, and schools."2 Who is correct about American charity — Alexis de Tocqueville, or Jimmy Carter? To a certain...

...dispositions constantly form associations," Tocqueville wrote. Besides political groups, there were "associations of a thousand other kinds, religious,...general or restricted, enormous or diminutive. The American makes associations to give entertainments, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct...

...Finally, by "civil associations," Tocqueville meant not only "commercial and manufacturing companies," but "associations of a thousand other kinds, religious,...serious, futile, general or restricted, enormous or diminutive."34 Somewhat surprisingly, Tocqueville's notion of civil association also includes the press...

...dispositions constantly form associations. . . . The Americans make associations to give entertainment, to found seminaries, to build inns, to construct churches, to diffuse books. . . . Wherever at the end of some new undertaking you see the government in France, or a man of rank...