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“Democratic peoples hold erudition in very low esteem and care little about what happened in Rome and Athens,” he wrote in his celebrated study, Democracy in America. “What they want to hear about is themselves, and what they ask to be shown is a picture of the present.”20 But then Tocqueville himself may have been unsympathetic to Greco-Roman studies, having failed in classics as a schoolboy.21
Alexis de Tocqueville.
