I was very intrigued by Tocqueville’s quote “If in polished countries the lowest of the people are rude and uncivil, it is not merely because they are poor and ignorant, but because, being so, they are in daily contact with… Read moreTocqueville “EXTERIOR FORM OF NORTH AMERICA” Quote Analysis
Toqueville’s piece seamlessly connects the ideas of freedom and potential in a new way. When reading his work, I felt that it seems obvious that a free man, who lives in a society of equality, has the ability and the… Read more“HOW EQUALITY SUGGESTS TO THE AMERICANS THE IDEA OF THE INDEFINITE PERFECTABILITY OF MAN” Tocqueville response, animals and humans
In this chapter, Tocqueville describes the condition, relationships, and lifestyles of the three different races (European, African, and Indian) in America. The white people were cruel, unfair, and lived as superiors to the other two races. Tocqueville goes on to… Read more“The Present and Probable Future…” ERA
Tocqueville has a lot of interesting assertions regarding the three races that existed early on in America: the white man, the African American, and the Indian or the native American. Tocqueville draws extensively upon the idea that he mentions in… Read more“The Present and Probably Future Condition of the Three Races that Inhabit the Territory of the United States” reaction
“This kind of aristocracy sympathized with the body of the people whose passions and interests it easily embraced; but it was too weak and too short loved to excite either love or hatred. This was the class which headed the… Read moreSocial Conditions