Volume 2, Part 1, Chapters 1-7
Opens Volume 2 with the philosophical method of the Americans and traces democratic tendencies in intellectual life, including the famous chapter on pantheism.
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From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Democratic peoples tend toward general ideas, abstract thinking, and pantheistic worldviews because equality dissolves particularity — a tendency that endangers careful thought and individual greatness.
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