Volume 2, Part 2, Chapters 2-4
Defines individualism as distinct from selfishness and traces how equality of conditions produces it, dissolving the chains linking generations.
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From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Tocqueville coined 'individualism' as a distinctively democratic disposition — a calm, considered tendency to withdraw into the small circle of family and friends, leaving society at large to itself, which corrodes civic life and prepares the way for despotism.
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