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October 10 - November 26, 2017
if I am asked how we should account for the unusual prosperity and growing strength of this nation, I would reply that they must be attributed to the superiority of their women.
When I see property changing hands so quickly and love of property becoming so restless and passionate, I cannot help fearing that men will reach the point of regarding every new theory as a threat, every innovation as a vexatious disturbance, all social progress as the first step toward a revolution
In this way, several of the greatest political advantages of aristocracy would be obtained without any of its injustices or dangers. A political, industrial, commercial, or even scientific and literary association equals an educated and powerful citizen who cannot be persuaded at will nor suppressed in some shadowy corner and who saves the liberties of all by defending its own rights against the demands of the government.
It is a natural belief that this creator and preserver of men derives the greatest satisfaction not from the unusual prosperity of the few but the widespread wellbeing of all.
He becomes inured to everything he sees—an ancient people, the original and rightful masters of the American continent melting away daily like snow in sunshine and disappearing before our eyes from the face of the earth.
We were wondering by what peculiar license of destiny we, the children of an ancient people, were led to be present at one of the settings of the primitive world and to see the yet empty cradle of a great nation when we had been able to look upon the ruins of empires already gone and to walk in the wilderness created by men.
It should be understood that I am speaking here about sovereign democratic nations and not confederated democratic nations. In confederations, as the predominant power always resides, despite any pretense, with the state governments and not the federal governments, civil wars are but foreign wars in disguise.
