TABLE OF CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND PART.
FIRST BOOK.
INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON THE PROGRESS OF OPINION IN THE
UNITED STATES.
| Page | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Philosophical method among the Americans | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Of the principal source of belief among democratic nations | 7 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Why the Americans display more readiness and more taste for general ideas than their forefathers the English | 12 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Why the Americans have never been so eager as the French for general ideas in political matters | 18 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Of the manner in which religion in the United States avails itself of democratic tendencies | 20 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Of the progress of Roman Catholicism in the United States | 29 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Of the cause of a leaning to Pantheism among democratic nations | 31 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The principle of equality suggests to the Americans the idea of the indefinite perfectibility of man | 33 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The example of the Americans does not prove that a democratic people can have no aptitude and no taste for science, literature, or art | 35 |
