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Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
Table of Contents: Volume I
Table of Contents: Volume II
- Introduction to the Second Volume.
- Section I: Influence of Democracy on the Action of Intellect in
The United States.
- Philosophical Method of The Americans.
- Of the Principal Source of Belief Among
Democratic Nations.
- Why the Americans Show More General Aptitude
and Taste for General Ideas that their Forefathers, The English.
- Why the Americans have never been so Eager as
the French for General Ideas in Political Affairs.
- How Religion in The United States Avails
itself of Democratic Tendencies.
- The Progress of Roman Catholicism in The
United States,
- What Causes Democratic Nations to Incline
toward Pantheism,
- How Equality Suggests to the Americans the
Indefinite Perfectibility of Man.
- The Example of the Americans does not Prove
that a Democratic People can have no Aptitude and no Taste for Science, Literature, or
Art.
- Why the Americans are more Addicted to
Practical rather than Theoretical Science.
- In What Spirit the Americans Cultivate the
Arts.
- Why the Americans Raise Some Insignificant
Monuments and Others that are Very Grand.
- Literary Characteristics of Democratic Times.
- The Trade of Literature.
- The Study of Greek and Latin Literature is
Peculiarly Useful in The United States.
- How American Democracy has Modified the
English Language.
- Of Some Sources of Poetry Among Democratic
Nations.
- Why American Writers and Orators Use an
Inflated Style.
- Some Observations of the Drama among
Democratic Nations.
- Some Characteristics of Historians in
Democratic Times.
- On Parliamentary Eloquence in The United
States.
- Section 2: Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of Americans.
- Why Democratic Nations Show a more Ardent and
Enduring Love of Equality than of Liberty.
- Of Individualism in Democratic Countries.
- Individualism Strong at the Close of a
Democratic Revolution than at Other Periods.
- That the Americans Combat the Effects of
Individualism with Free Institutions.
- Of the Uses which the Americans Make of
Public Associations.
- Of the Relation of Public Associations and
the Newspapers.
- Relation of Civil to Political Associations.
- How the Americans Combat Individualism by the
Principle of Self-Interest Rightly Understood.
- That the Americans Apply the Principle of
Self-interest Rightly Understood to Religions Matters.
- Of the Taste for Physical Well-being in
America.
- Peculiar Effects of the Love of Physical
Gratification in Democratic Times.
- Why Some Americans Manifest a Sort of
Spiritual Fanaticism.
- Why the Americans are so Restless in the
Midst of their Prosperity.
- How the Taste for Physical Gratification's is
United in America to Love of Freedom and Attention to Public Affairs.
- How Religious Belief Sometimes Turns
Americans to Immaterial Pleasures.
- How Excessive Care for Worldly Welfare may
Impair that Welfare.
- How, When Conditions are Equal and Skepticism
is Rife, it is Important to Direct Human Actions to Distant Objects.
- Why Among the Americans All Honest Callings
are Considered Honorable.
- What Causes Almost All Americans to Follow an
Industrial Calling.
- How an Aristocracy may be Created by
Manufactures.
- Section 3: Influence of Democracy on Manners Properly so Called.
- How Customs are Softened as Social Conditions
become more Equal.
- How Democracy Renders the Social Intercourse
of the Americans Free and Easy.
- Why the Americans Show so Little
Sensitiveness in their own Country and are so Sensitive in Europe.
- Consequences of the Preceding Three Chapters.
- How Democracy Affects the Relations of
Masters and Servants.
- How Democratic Institutions and Manners Tend
to Raise Rents and Shorten the Terms of Leases.
- Influence of Democracy on Wages.
- Influence of Democracy on the Family.
- Education of Young Women in The United
States.
- The Young Woman in the Character of the Wife.
- How Equality of Condition Contributes in
America to Good Morals.
- How Americans Understand the Equality of the
Sexes.
- How the Principle of Equality Naturally
Divides the Americans into a Multitude of Small Circles.
- Some Reflections on American Manners.
- Of the Gravity of the Americans and why it
does not Prevent them from often doing Inconsiderate Things.
- Why the National Vanity of the Americans is
more Restless and Captious than that of the English. 1
- How the Aspect of Society in The United
States is at once Excited and Monotonous.
- Of Honor in The United States and in
Democratic Communities.
- Why so many Ambitious Men and so Little Lofty
Ambition are to be Found in The United States.
- The Trade of Place-hunting in Certain
Democratic Societies.
- Why Great Revolutions Will become More Rare.
- Why Democratic Nations Naturally Desire
Peace, and Democratic Armies, War.
- Which is the Most Warlike and Revolutionary
Class in Democratic Armies .
- Causes Which Render Democratic Armies Weaker
than Other Armies at the Outset of a Campaign, and More Formidable in Protracted Warfare.
- Of Discipline in Democratic Armies.
- Some Considerations on War in Democratic
Communities.
- Section 4: Influence of Democratic Ideas and Feelings on Political
Society.
- Influence of Democratic Ideas and Feelings on
Political Society.
- That the Opinions of Democratic Nations about
Government are Naturally Favorable to the Concentration of Power.
- That the Sentiments of Democratic Nations
Accord with their Opinions in Leading them to Concentrate Political Power.
- Of Certain Peculiar and Accidental Causes
which either Lead a People to Complete the Centralization of Government or Divert them
from it.
- That Among the European Nations of our Time
the Sovereign Power is Increasing, Although the Sovereigns are Less Stable.
- What sort of Despotism Democratic Nations
have to Fear.
- Continuation of the Preceding Chapters.
- General Survey of the Subject,
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