March 15, 2017
When Alexis de Tocqueville authored
Democracy in America, a two-volume treatment of America, he wrote it “to find there instruction by which we ourselves may profit.”
By “we,” Tocqueville was referring to his fellow Frenchmen, but although he may have written those words in 1835, we as Americans of the 21st century also have plenty to profit from Tocqueville’s wisdom, if we’ll but receive it.
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