 ... provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to...  Democracy in America - Stran 233avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Thomas Smyth - 1843 - 323 strani
...subjects for manhood ; but it is, on the contrary, only adapted to keep them in perpetual childhood, to spare them all the care of thinking, and all the trouble of living, and gradually to rob man of all use of himself. To employ the powerful language of our author,* ' after... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1864
...necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances...them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of li ving ? Thus, it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908
...subjects for manhood ; but it is, on the contrary, only adapted to keep them in perpetual childhood, to spare them all the care of thinking, and all the trouble of living, and gradually to rob man of all use of himself. To employ the powerful language of our author,:}: 'after... | |
 | Sandor Halebsky - 1976 - 309 strani
...necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property and subdivides their inheritances:...remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and of all the troubles of living? After having thus successively taken each member of the community in... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1982 - 391 strani
...necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances...the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? self. The principle of equality has prepared men for these things: it has predisposed men to endure... | |
 | John H. Schaar - 1981 - 359 strani
...and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures . . . , directs their industry ... — what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? . . . After having thus . . . taken each member ... in its powerful grasp . . . the supreme power then... | |
 | Michael Novak - 287 strani
...necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances:...the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? . . . the supreme power then . . . covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated... | |
 | Michel Griffon - 1992 - 256 strani
...all problems in human societies. Tocqueville understood the deep anomaly. «What remains», he asked, «but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?» ([1840] 1945, II: 318). «Citizens», so-called, become «more than kings and less than men» (ibid.:... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - 1993 - 130 strani
...necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances...the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? Such a power, he concluded in his extraordinary anticipation of some aspects of the welfare state,... | |
 | James B. Bryce - 1993 - 190 strani
...church, and neighborhood fade in importance, and as government increasingly stands in their place, "it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent."26 Under these conditions is it any wonder that individuals retreat from civic duty? As Tocqueville... | |
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