Alexis de Tocqueville about democracy (“Democracy in America”, 1840) - Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.
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“ Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society. ”
 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1840). copy citation

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Alexis de Tocqueville about democracy (“Democracy in America”, 1840) - Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.
Alexis de Tocqueville about democracy (“Democracy in America”, 1840) - Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.