Volume 2, Part 4, Chapter 8 (Conclusion)
Final reflection: aristocracy made a chain of all citizens from peasant to king; democracy breaks the chain. Neither system can simply be judged; one must educate democracy.
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From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Throughout the work Tocqueville contrasts aristocratic and democratic societies as fundamentally different human types, refusing to celebrate democracy uncritically while accepting its inevitability and seeking its noblest possibilities.
Volume 2, Part 3, Chapter 1
'How Manners Become More Mild as Conditions Become More Equal' — comparative analysis of mores.
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