Author's Introduction (Volume 1)
Opens the work: 'No novelty in the United States struck me more vividly during my stay there than the equality of conditions.' Declares the democratic revolution a providential fact.
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From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Tocqueville's foundational thesis that the irresistible, providential movement toward equality of conditions is the generative social fact shaping all modern political, intellectual, and moral life.
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