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American Exceptionalism - Democracy In America, Tocqueville
CJH
11/8/2009 5:28:18 PM
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| A Tocqueville quote on the European enlightenment vs American freedom -
THE philosophers of the eighteenth century explained in a very simple manner the gradual decay of religious faith. Religious zeal, said they, must necessarily fail the more generally liberty is established and knowledge diffused. Unfortunately, the facts by no means accord with their theory. There are certain populations in Europe whose unbelief is only equaled by their ignorance and debasement; while in America, one of the freest and most enlightened nations in the world, the people fulfill with fervor all the outward duties of religion.
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Alexis de Tocqueville, Democra... |
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