 The gradual development of the equality of conditions is therefore a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree: it is universal, it is durable, it constantly eludes all human interference, and all events as well as...  M. de Tocqueville on democracy in America - Page 12by John Stuart Mill - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1838 - 354 pages
...God. . The gradual development of the equality of conditions is therefore a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a Divine decree...well as all men contribute to its progress. Would it, then, be wise to imagine that a social impulse which dates from so far back, can be checked by the... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 pages
...God. The gradual development of the equality of conditions is there* fore a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a Divine decree...interference, and all events as well as all men contribute to ita progress. Would it, then, be wise to imagine that a social impulse which dates from so far back,... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1840 - 286 pages
...development of the equality of conditions is, therefore," he thinks, " a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree:...as well as all men, contribute to its progress."! Here our good and evil passions are made equally to contribute towards the execution of "a divine decree;"... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1840 - 290 pages
...development of the equality of conditions is, therefore," he thinks, " a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree:...all events, as well as all men, contribute to its progress."f Here our good and evil passions are made equally to contribute towards the execution of... | |
 | 1841 - 602 pages
...end, some ignorantly and some unwillingly ; all have been blind instruments in the hands of God. 1 The gradual development of the equality of conditions...well as all men contribute to its progress. ' Would ft be wise to imagine that a social impulse which dates from so far back can be checked by the efforts... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - 1843 - 394 pages
..."The gradual developement of the equality of conditions, is, therefore, a Providential fact ; and it possesses all the characteristics of a Divine decree...events, as well as all men, contribute to its progress." " The whole book, which is here offered to the public, has been written under the impression of a kind... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...consummation. De Tocqueville has splendidly expressed the resistlessness of this tendency in human affairs: "It possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree...events as well as all men contribute to its progress." In fact, we live in a wonderful age, when all nations are stalling from slumber, and are moving upwards.... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1845 - 830 pages
...consummation. De Tocqueville has splendidly expressed the resistlessness of this tendency in human affairs: "It possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree...events as well as all men contribute to its progress." In fact, we live in a wonderful age, when all nations are starting from slumber, and are moving upwards.... | |
 | 1845 - 818 pages
...consummation. De Tocqueville has splendidly expressed the resistlessness of this tendency in human affairs: "It possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree...events as well as all men contribute to its progress." In fact, we live in a wonderful age, when all nations are starting from slumber, and are moving upwards.... | |
 | 1849 - 472 pages
...the human mind and the perfection of human Government. As an elegant writer has expressed it. " It possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree...events as well as all men contribute to its progress." "NE-POW-EA." AN INDIAN LEGEND. " When an Indian maiden dies, her friends take a young bird which has... | |
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