Volume 2, Part 2, Chapter 13
'Why the Americans Are So Restless in the Midst of Their Prosperity' — the classic diagnosis of democratic anxiety.
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From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Equality breeds an insatiable, restless pursuit of material well-being that, paradoxically, produces a strange melancholy amid prosperity — Americans are unhappy precisely because everything seems possible.
Volume 2, Part 2, Chapters 10-12
On the taste for physical well-being and its effects on mores.
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