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causes which conduce to this, ii. 317. The causes which tend to prevent this, ii. 317. Enervating to society and weakening to itself, ii. 320. Fondness of military men for, ii. 321. Of power induced by the principle of equality, ii. 322.
Change, love of, among a democratic people, ii. 272.
Characteristics, general, of a democratic age, ii. 17.
Characteristics, literary, of democratic and aristocratic countries compared, ii. 59.
Characteristics, peculiar of the Americans, ii. 251.
Charges, levied by the state under the rule of the American democracy, i. 230. Why public expenditures tend to increase, when the people governs, i. 231. Why this is less to be feared in America than elsewhere, i. 232. Public expenditures under a democracy, i, 233. Tendencies of the American democracy as it regards the salaries of public officers, i. 234. What are increased and what reduced, i. 235. Comparison of the public expenditures in France and the United States, i. 236.
China, prohibitionary rules of, ii. 261.
Chinese, their attainments in the arts, ii. 47.
Christianity, its influence upon the world, on its first introduction, ii. 24.
Christianity, in America, its few forms and observances, ii. 27.
Citizens, of the United States, their rights of indicting a public functionary, i. 107. Their individual insignificance in a democracy, ii. 55.
Civil associations, their connexion with those political, ii. 123.
Classes of society in a democracy, ii. 269.
Clergy, the, their influence in the United States, ii. 27. Their respect for intellectual superiority and public opinion, ii. 28. Characteristics of their public discourses, their habits, &c., ii. 135.
Commercial prosperity of the United States, reflections on the causes of, i. 457. The Americans destined by nature to be a great maritime people, i. 458. Extent of their coasts, i. 459. Depth of their ports, size of their rivers, &c., i. 460. Their facility for changing their occupations and pursuits, i. 461. The commercial superiority of the Anglo-Americans, less attributable to physical circumstances, than to moral and intellectual causes, i. 463. Reasons for this, as instanced in the commercial relations between the northern and southern states, i. 464. The prosperity of the Americans a source of advantage to British manufactures, i. 464. The dismemberment of the Union would not check the maritime vigour of the States, i. 464. The Anglo-Americans will naturally supply the wants of South America, i. 463. They will become, like the English, the fac-
