America.
The one that lives in books and in history.
1. Want to read about it, about the glowing respect of those outside our nation, what was 'a shining city on a hill'? It's in the works of our birthday boy today:
Alexis de Tocqueville, (born July 29, 1805, Paris, France—died April 16, 1859, Cannes), political scientist, historian, and politician, best known for Democracy in America, 4 vol. (1835–40), a perceptive analysis of the political and social system of the United States in the early 19th century.
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2. The 'entry fee' to understanding what we were, and what we will be should Trump lose the election, is having read Tocqueville's study of America about the time of our nation's creation, Democracy in America. If you haven't read it, if you don't read books, you are inadvertently working for America's enemies, the Democrat Party.
3. Tocqueville actually warned of Liberalism, and how it would use materialism to corrupt society.
Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”
4. Tocqueville foresaw that the human “soul” would enter into a “long repose.” In the process, “individual energy” would be “almost extinguished”; and, when action was required, men would “rely on others,” in a new and unprecedented “species of servitude.”
5. And what would the alternative look like? Decentralized administration, local self-government, civic associations, an unfettered press, Biblical religion, and the marital solidarity characteristic of Jacksonian America, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, put into practical form through the Constitution, and given an authoritative interpretation in ‘The Federalist.’
[from The Heritage Foundation]
Tocqueville did his job, in telling what was, and warning of what will be.
Too many of us don't do our job.
The one that lives in books and in history.
1. Want to read about it, about the glowing respect of those outside our nation, what was 'a shining city on a hill'? It's in the works of our birthday boy today:
Alexis de Tocqueville, (born July 29, 1805, Paris, France—died April 16, 1859, Cannes), political scientist, historian, and politician, best known for Democracy in America, 4 vol. (1835–40), a perceptive analysis of the political and social system of the United States in the early 19th century.
Britannica.com
2. The 'entry fee' to understanding what we were, and what we will be should Trump lose the election, is having read Tocqueville's study of America about the time of our nation's creation, Democracy in America. If you haven't read it, if you don't read books, you are inadvertently working for America's enemies, the Democrat Party.
3. Tocqueville actually warned of Liberalism, and how it would use materialism to corrupt society.
Alexis de Tocqueville, writing “Democracy in America” in the 1830’s, described “an immense, tutelary power, which takes sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” As he predicted, this power is “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” and it “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”
4. Tocqueville foresaw that the human “soul” would enter into a “long repose.” In the process, “individual energy” would be “almost extinguished”; and, when action was required, men would “rely on others,” in a new and unprecedented “species of servitude.”
5. And what would the alternative look like? Decentralized administration, local self-government, civic associations, an unfettered press, Biblical religion, and the marital solidarity characteristic of Jacksonian America, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, put into practical form through the Constitution, and given an authoritative interpretation in ‘The Federalist.’
[from The Heritage Foundation]
Tocqueville did his job, in telling what was, and warning of what will be.
Too many of us don't do our job.
