“ When the taste for physical gratifications amongst such a people has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away, and lose all self-restraint, at the sight of the new possessions they are about to lay hold upon. ”
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1840). copy citation
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Translated by Henry Reeve