“ Democracy loosens social ties, but it draws the ties of nature more tight ”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1840). copy citation
Author | Alexis de Tocqueville |
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Source | Democracy in America |
Topic | democracy |
Date | 1840 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Henry Reeve |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/816/816-h/816-h.htm |
Context
“but it only modifies some others, and frequently imparts to them a degree of energy and sweetness unknown before. Perhaps it is not impossible to condense into a single proposition the whole meaning of this chapter, and of several others that preceded it. Democracy loosens social ties, but it draws the ties of nature more tight; it brings kindred more closely together, whilst it places the various members of the community more widely apart.
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