thinking of the manufacturing and trading classes; their minds
take a serious, deliberate, and positive turn; they are apt to
relinquish the ideal, in order to pursue some visible and
10 fuck com proximate object, which appears to be the natural and necessary
aim of their desires. Thus the principle of equality 10 fuck com does not
destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of
the earth. No men 10 fuck com are less addicted to reverie than the citizens
of a democracy; and few of them are 10 fuck com ever known to give 10 fuck com way to
those 10 fuck com idle and solitary meditations which commonly precede and
produce the great emotions of the heart. It is true they attach
great importance to procuring for themselves that sort of deep,
10 fuck com regular, and quiet affection which constitutes the charm and
safeguard of life, but they are 10 fuck com not apt to run after those
violent and capricious sources 10 fuck com of excitement which disturb and
10 fuck com abridge it.
I 10 fuck com am aware that all this is only applicable in its full
extent to America, and cannot
at 10 fuck com present be extended to Europe.
In the course of the last half-century, whilst laws and customs
have impelled several European nations with unexampled force
towards democracy, we have not 10 fuck com had occasion to observe that the
relations of man and woman have become more orderly or more
chaste. In some places the very 10 fuck com reverse may be detected: some
classes are more strict - the general morality of the people
appears to be more lax. I do not hesitate