 States, the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America...  Democracy in America - Stran 239avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 455 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | JOHN SWANN WITHINGTON - 1881 - 788 strani
...most competent and impartial observer, and in his great work on '• Democracy in America " he says, "There is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America.' ' Concerning the results of the disestablishment of the Episcopal Church in America, Dr. Pusey, in... | |
 | Henry Richard - 1885 - 168 strani
...But is it so in the United States ? De Tocqueville, in his great work on Democracy in America, says : "There is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America." Nay, more, he states that he inquired carefully into the cause of this, inquired of men of all sects,... | |
 | Henry Richard - 1885 - 168 strani
...But is it so in the United States? De Tocqueville, in his great work on Democracy in America, says : "There is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America." Nay, more, he states that he inquired carefully into the cause of this, inquired of men of all sects,... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1889 - 158 strani
...States in 1831 with a commission to investigate the penitentiary system, came to the conviction that " there is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America." ' James Bryce, Professor of Civil Law in Oxford, and Member of Parliament, who spent much time in the... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1893 - 638 strani
...writers on America who have visited the country, arc fully agreed. Alexis de Tooqueville says that " there is no country in the whole world in which the...greater influence over the souls of men than in America" (Democracy in America, I. 285). The incidental judgment of Prof. James Bryce of Oxford on religion... | |
 | Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1893 - 368 strani
...conformity of conduct to that belief. "There is no country in the whole world," said De Tocqueville, "in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; it directs the manners of the community, and by regulating domestic life it regulates the State. I... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1893 - 1072 strani
...conformity of conduct to that belief. "There is no country in the whole world," said DeTocqueville, " in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; it directs the manners of the community, and by regulating domestic life it regulates the state. I... | |
 | Jenkin Lloyd Jones - 1893 - 344 strani
...conformity of conduct to that belief. "There is no country in the whole world," said De Tocqueville, "in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America; it directs the manners of the community, and by regulating domestic life it regulates the State. I... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1908 - 904 strani
...estimate save one ever written of the United States, de Tocqueville said : There is no country in the world in which the Christian religion retains a greater...greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity with human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free... | |
 | William Daniel Grant - 1902 - 542 strani
...rapid than the progress of the population, and it is as true to-day as when De Tocqueville wrote that : "There is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America." When complete religious liberty exists, toleration becomes not a legal but a mental and moral condition.... | |
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