 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1863 - 594 pages
...prevent their unequal distribution. But it is at least a consequence of what we have just said, that although the capacities of men are different, as the Creator intended they should be, Americans find the means of putting them to use are equal. In America, the aristocratic element has... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Constitutional history - 1870 - 628 pages
...prevent their unequal distribution. But it is at least a consequence of what we have just said, that although the capacities of men are different, as the Creator intended they should be, Americans find the means of putting them to use are equal. In America, the aristocratic element has... | |
 | Shana Cohen - History - 2004 - 196 pages
...poverty. The common appreciation of equality obscured differences in talent, or, as Tocqueville wrote, "Although the capacities of men are different, as...Americans find for putting them to use are equal" ( 1945, 55) . The hegemony of the idea of equality in the twentieth century, disseminated through nationalism... | |
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... are to be found who entertain the same number of ideas on religion, history, science, political economy, legislation, and government. The gifts of intellect proceed directly from God, and man cannot prevent their unequal distribution. But it is at... 