Democracy in America, Volume 2

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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Democracy in America, Volume 2
	Foreword, p. 690
	First Part:
Influence of Democracy on the Intellectual Movement in the United States, p. 696
		Chapter 1:
Of the Philosophical Method of the Americans, p. 697
		Chapter 2:
Of the Principal Source of Beliefs among Democratic Peoples, p. 711
		Chapter 3:
Why the Americans Show More Aptitude and Taste for General Ideas Than Their Fathers the English, p. 726
		Chapter 4:
Why the Americans Have Never Been as Passionate as the French about General Ideas in Political Matters, p. 737
		Chapter 5:
How, in the United States, Religion Knows How to Make Use of Democratic Instincts, p. 742
		Chapter 6:
Of the Progress of Catholicism in the United States, p. 754
		Chapter 7:
What Makes the Minds of Democratic Peoples Incline toward Pantheism, p. 757
		Chapter 8:
How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man, p. 759
		Chapter 9:
How the Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Cannot Have Aptitude and Taste for the Sciences, Literature, and the Arts, p. 763
		Chapter 10:
Why the Americans Are More Attached to the Application of the Sciences Than to the Theory, p. 775
		Chapter 11:
In What Spirit the Americans Cultivate the Arts, p. 788
		Chapter 12:
Why the Americans Erect Such Small and Such Large Monuments at the Same Time, p. 796
		Chapter 13:
Literary Physiognomy of Democratic Centuries, p. 800
		Chapter 14:
Of the Literary Industry, p. 813
		Chapter 15:
Why the Study of Greek and Latin Literature Is Particularly Useful in Democratic Societies, p. 815
		Chapter 16:
How American Democracy Has Modified the English Language, p. 818
		Chapter 17:
Of Some Sources of Poetry among Democratic Nations, p. 830
		Chapter 18:
Why American Writers and Orators Are Often Bombastic, p. 843
		Chapter 19:
Some Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoples, p. 845
		Chapter 20:
Of Some Tendencies Particular to Historians in Democratic Centuries, p. 853
		Chapter 21:
Of Parliamentary Eloquence in the United States, p. 861
	Second Part:
Influence of Democracy on the Sentiments of the Americans, p. 871
		Chapter 1:
Why Democratic Peoples Show a More Ardent and More Enduring Love for Equality Than for Liberty, p. 872
		Chapter 2:
Of Individualism in Democratic Countries, p. 881
		Chapter 3:
How Individualism Is Greater at the End of a Democratic Revolution than at Another Time, p. 885
		Chapter 4:
How the Americans Combat Individualism with Free Institutions, p. 887
		Chapter 5:
Of the Use That Americans Make of Association in Civil Life, p. 895
		Chapter 6:
Of the Relation between Associations and Newspapers, p. 905
		Chapter 7:
Relations between Civil Associations and Political Associations, p. 911
		Chapter 8:
How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Doctrine of Interest Well Understood, p. 918
		Chapter 9:
How the Americans Apply the Doctrine of Interest Well Understood in the Matter of Religion, p. 926
		Chapter 10:
Of the Taste for Material Well-Being in America, p. 930
		Chapter 11:
Of the Particular Effects Produced by the Love of Material Enjoyments in Democratic Centuries, p. 935
		Chapter 12:
Why Certain Americans Exhibit So Excited a Spiritualism, p. 939
		Chapter 13:
Why the Americans Appear So Restless Amid Their Well-Being, p. 942
		Chapter 14:
How the Taste for Material Enjoyments Is United, among the Americans, with the Love of Liberty and Concern for Public Affairs, p. 948
		Chapter 15:
How from Time to Time Religious Beliefs Divert the Soul of the Americans toward Non-Material Enjoyments, p. 954
		Chapter 16:
How the Excessive Love of Well-Being Can Harm Well-Being, p. 963
		Chapter 17:
How, in Times of Equality and Doubt, It Is Important to Push Back the Goal of Human Actions, p. 965
		Chapter 18:
Why, among the Americans, All Honest Professions Are Considered Honorable, p. 969
		Chapter 19:
What Makes Nearly All Americans Tend toward Industrial Professions, p. 972
		Chapter 20:
How Aristocracy Could Emerge from Industry, p. 980
	Third Part:
Influence of Democracy on Mores Properly So Called, p. 986
		Chapter 1:
How Mores Become Milder as Conditions Become Equal, p. 987
		Chapter 2:
How Democracy Makes the Habitual Relations of the Americans Simpler and Easier, p. 995
		Chapter 3:
Why the Americans Have So Little Susceptibility in Their Country and Show Such Susceptibility in Ours, p. 1000
		Chapter 4:
Consequences of the Three Preceding Chapters, p. 1005
		Chapter 5:
How Democracy Modifies the Relationships of Servant and Master, p. 1007
		Chapter 6:
How Democratic Institutions and Mores Tend to Raise the Cost and Shorten the Length of Leases, p. 1020
		Chapter 7:
Influence of Democracy on Salaries, p. 1025
		Chapter 8:
Influence of Democracy on the Family, p. 1031
		Chapter 9:
Education of Young Girls in the United States, p. 1041
		Chapter 10:
How the Young Girl Is Found Again in the Features of the Wife, p. 1048
		Chapter 11:
How Equality of Conditions Contributes to Maintaining Good Morals in America, p. 1052
		Chapter 12:
How the Americans Understand the Equality of Man and of Woman, p. 1062
		Chapter 13:
How Equality Divides the Americans Naturally into a Multitude of Small Particular Societies, p. 1068
		Chapter 14:
Some Reflections on American Manners, p. 1071
		Chapter 15:
Of the Gravity of Americans and Why It Does Not Prevent Them from Often Doing Thoughtless Things, p. 1080
		Chapter 16:
Why the National Vanity of the Americans Is More Anxious and More Quarrelsome Than That of the English, p. 1085
		Chapter 17:
How the Appearance of Society in the United States Is at the Very Same Time Agitated and Monotonous, p. 1089
		Chapter 18:
Of Honor in the United States and in Democratic Societies, p. 1093
		Chapter 19:
Why in the United States You Find So Many Ambitious Men and So Few Great Ambitions, p. 1116
		Chapter 20:
Of Positions Becoming an Industry among Certain Democratic Nations, p. 1129
		Chapter 21:
Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare, p. 1133
		Chapter 22:
Why Democratic Peoples Naturally Desire Peace and Democratic Armies Naturally Desire War, p. 1153
		Chapter 23:
Which Class, in Democratic Armies, Is the Most Warlike and the Most Revolutionary, p. 1165
		Chapter 24:
What Makes Democratic Armies Weaker Than Other Armies While Beginning a Military Campaign and More Formidable When the War Is Prolonged, p. 1170
		Chapter 25:
Of Discipline in Democratic Armies, p. 1176
		Chapter 26:
Some Considerations on War in Democratic Societies, p. 1178
	Fourth Part:
Of the Influence That Democratic Ideas and Sentiments Exercise on Political Society, p. 1187
		Chapter 1:
Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions, p. 1191
		Chapter 2:
That the Ideas of Democratic Peoples in Matters of Government Naturally Favor the Concentration of Powers, p. 1194
		Chapter 3:
That the Sentiments of Democratic Peoples Are in Agreement with Their Ideas for Bringing Them to Concentrate Power, p. 1200
		Chapter 4:
Of Some Particular and Accidental Causes That End up Leading a Democratic People to Centralize Power or That Turn Them Away from Doing So, p. 1206
		Chapter 5:
That among the European Nations of Today the Sovereign Power Increases Although Sovereigns Are Less Stable, p. 1221
		Chapter 6:
What Type of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear, p. 1245
		Chapter 7:
Continuation of the Preceding Chapters, p. 1262
		Chapter 8:
General View of the Subject, p. 1278
Notes
Appendixes
	Appendix 1:
Journey to Lake Oneida, p. 1295
	Appendix 2:
A Fortnight in the Wilderness, p. 1303
	Appendix 3:
Sects in America, p. 1360
	Appendix 4:
Political Activity in America, p. 1365
	Appendix 5:
Letter of Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Stoffels, p. 1368
	Appendix 6:
Foreword to the Twelfth Edition, p. 1373
Works Used by Tocqueville
Bibliography
Index