Saturday, July 13, 2013

"At the present time, more than in any preceding age, Roman Catholics are seen to be lapse into infidelity, and Protestants to be converted to Roman Catholicism."

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"there have ever been and will ever be men who, after having submitted some portion of their religious belief to the principle of autho...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

From "intellectual dust" to great herds of mud

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"When equality of conditions succeeds a protracted conflict between the different classes of which the elder society was composed, envy...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Tocqueville on the indispensability of civic virtue

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"in the constitutions of all nations, of whatever kind they may be, a certain point exists at which the legislator must have recourse t...

"a people ought to be moral, religious, and temperate in proportion as it is free."

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"un peuple doit être moral, religieux et modéré, en proportion qu'il est libre."      Alexis de Tocqueville,  Democracy in A...

"Unbelief is an accident; faith alone is the permanent state of humanity."

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     "The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect joys of this world satisfy hi...

"Nothing tends to materialize man and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind more than the extreme specialization of labor."

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"In America it sometimes happens that the same person tills his field, builds his dwelling, fashions his tools, makes his shoes, and we...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

"In the United States even the religion of most of the citizens is republican, since it submits the truths of the other world to private judgment...."

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"Aux États-Unis, la religion du plus grand nombre elle-même est républicaine; elle soumet le vérit és de l'autre monde à la raison ...