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⁠CHAPTER VI.	Page
Of the progress of Roman Catholicism in the United States	33
CHAPTER VII.
Of the cause of a leaning to Pantheism amongst democratic nations	35
CHAPTER VIII.
The principle of equality suggests to the Americans the idea of the indefinite perfectibility of man	37
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	40
CHAPTER X.
Why the Americans are more addicted to practical than to theoretical science	47
CHAPTER XI.
Of the spirit in which the Americans cultivate the arts	56
CHAPTER XII.
Why the Americans raise some monuments so insignificant and others so important	63
CHAPTER XIII.
Literary characteristics of democratic ages	65
CHAPTER XIV.
The trade of literature	72
CHAPTER XV.
The study of Greek and Latin literature peculiarly useful in democratic communities	73
CHAPTER XVI.
The effect of democracy on language	76
CHAPTER XVII.
Of some of the sources of poetry amongst democratic nations	85