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Democracy in America. English Edition. Vol. 2.

Volume 2 of a two volume English only version of Liberty Fund’s 4 volume bi-lingual critical edition. In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont visited the United States. From Tocqueville’s copious notes of what he had seen and heard came the classic text De la Démocratie en Amérique, published in two large volumes, the first in 1835, the second in 1840. The first volume focused primarily on political society; the second, on civil society.

Democracy in America. English Edition. Edited by Eduardo Nolla. Translated from the French by James T. Schleifer. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2012). Vol. 2.

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Contents
VOLUME II Edition: current; Page: [689] : DEMOCRACY IN AMERICAa
Forewordb
FIRST PARTa: Influence of Democracy on the Intellectual Movement in the United States
CHAPTER 1a: Of the Philosophical Method of the Americansb
CHAPTER 2a: Of the Principal Source of Beliefs among Democratic Peoplesb
CHAPTER 3a: Why the Americans Show More Aptitude and Taste for General Ideas Than Their Fathers the English
CHAPTER 4a: Why the Americans Have Never Been as Passionate as the French about General Ideas in Political Matters
CHAPTER 5a: How, in the United States, Religion Knows How to Make Use of Democratic Instinctsb
CHAPTER 6a: Of the Progress of Catholicism in the United States
CHAPTER 7: What Makes the Minds of Democratic Peoples Incline toward Pantheisma
CHAPTER 8a: How Equality Suggests to the Americans the Idea of the Indefinite Perfectibility of Manb[TN 7]
CHAPTER 9a: How the Example of the Americans Does Not Prove That a Democratic People Cannot Have Aptitude and Taste for the Sciences, Literature, and the Artsb
CHAPTER 10a: Why the Americans Are More Attached to the Application of the Sciences Than to the Theoryb
CHAPTER 11a: In What Spirit the Americans Cultivate the Artsb
CHAPTER 12a: Why the Americans Erect Such Small and Such Large Monuments at the Same Time
CHAPTER 13a: Literary Physiognomy of Democratic Centuries
CHAPTER 14a: Of the Literary Industryb
CHAPTER 15a: Why the Study of Greek and Latin Literature Is Particularly Useful in Democratic Societies
CHAPTER 16a: How American Democracy Has Modified the English Languageb
CHAPTER 17a: Of Some Sources of Poetry among Democratic Nationsb
CHAPTER 18a: Why American Writers and Orators Are Often Bombasticb
CHAPTER 19a: Some Observations on the Theater of Democratic Peoplesb
CHAPTER 20a: Of Some Tendencies Particular to Historians in Democratic Centuriesb
CHAPTER 21a: Of Parliamentary Eloquence in the United Statesb
SECOND PART: Influence of Democracy on the Sentiments of the Americansa
CHAPTER 1a: Why Democratic Peoples Show a More Ardent and More Enduring Love for Equality Than for Libertyb
CHAPTER 2a: Of Individualism in Democratic Countries
CHAPTER 3: How Individualism Is Greater at the End of a Democratic Revolution than at Another Timea
CHAPTER 4a: How the Americans Combat Individualism with Free Institutionsb
CHAPTER 5a: Of the Use That Americans Make of Association in Civil Lifeb
[Of the Manner in Which American Governments Act toward Associations]t
CHAPTER 6a: Of the Relation between Associations and Newspapersb
CHAPTER 7a: Relations between Civil Associations and Political Associationsb
CHAPTER 8a: How the Americans Combat Individualism by the Doctrine of Interest Well Understoodb
CHAPTER 9a: How the Americans Apply the Doctrine of Interest Well Understood in the Matter of Religionb
CHAPTER 10a: Of the Taste for Material Well-Being in Americab
CHAPTER 11a: Of the Particular Effects Produced by the Love of Material Enjoyments in Democratic Centuriesb
CHAPTER 12a: Why Certain Americans Exhibit So Excited a Spiritualismb
CHAPTER 13a: Why the Americans Appear So Restless Amid Their Well-Being
CHAPTER 14a: How the Taste for Material Enjoyments Is United, among the Americans, with the Love of Liberty and Concern for Public Affairs
CHAPTER 15a: How from Time to Time Religious Beliefs Divert the Soul of the Americans toward Non-Material Enjoymentsb
CHAPTER 16a: How the Excessive Love of Well-Being Can Harm Well-Beingb
CHAPTER 17a: How, in Times of Equality and Doubt, It Is Important to Push Back the Goal of Human Actionsb
CHAPTER 18a: Why, among the Americans, All Honest Professions Are Considered Honorableb
CHAPTER 19a: What Makes Nearly All Americans Tend toward Industrial Professions
CHAPTER 20a: How Aristocracy Could Emerge from Industryb
THIRD PARTa: Influence of Democracy on Mores Properly So Called
CHAPTER 1a: How Mores Become Milder as Conditions Become Equal
CHAPTER 2a: How Democracy Makes the Habitual Relations of the Americans Simpler and Easierb
CHAPTER 3a: Why the Americans Have So Little Susceptibility in Their Country and Show Such Susceptibility in Oursb
CHAPTER 4a: Consequences of the Three Preceding Chapters
CHAPTER 5a: How Democracy Modifies the Relationships of Servant and Master
CHAPTER 6a: How Democratic Institutions and Mores Tend to Raise the Cost and Shorten the Length of Leases
CHAPTER 7a: Influence of Democracy on Salaries
CHAPTER 8a: Influence of Democracy on the Familyb
CHAPTER 9a: Education of Young Girls in the United Statesb
CHAPTER 10a: How the Young Girl Is Found Again in the Features of the Wife
CHAPTER 11a: How Equality of Conditions Contributes to Maintaining Good Morals in America
CHAPTER 12a: How the Americans Understand the Equality of Man and of Womanb
CHAPTER 13a: How Equality Divides the Americans Naturally into a Multitude of Small Particular Societiesb
CHAPTER 14a: Some Reflections on American Mannersb
CHAPTER 15a: Of the Gravity of Americans and Why It Does Not Prevent Them from Often Doing Thoughtless Thingsb
CHAPTER 16a: Why the National Vanity of the Americans Is More Anxious and More Quarrelsome Than That of the Englishb
CHAPTER 17a: How the Appearance of Society in the United States Is at the Very Same Time Agitated and Monotonousb
CHAPTER 18a: Of Honor in the United States and in Democratic Societies1
CHAPTER 19a: Why in the United States You Find So Many Ambitious Men and So Few Great Ambitionsb
CHAPTER 20a: Of Positions Becoming an Industry among Certain Democratic Nations
CHAPTER 21a: Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rareb
CHAPTER 22a: Why Democratic Peoples Naturally Desire Peace and Democratic Armies Naturally Desire War
CHAPTER 23a: Which Class, in Democratic Armies, Is the Most Warlike and the Most Revolutionary
CHAPTER 24a: What Makes Democratic Armies Weaker Than Other Armies While Beginning a Military Campaign and More Formidable When the War Is Prolongedb
CHAPTER 25a: Of Discipline in Democratic Armies
CHAPTER 26a: Some Considerations on War in Democratic Societies
FOURTH PARTa: Of the Influence That Democratic Ideas and Sentiments Exercise on Political Societyb
CHAPTER 1: Equality Naturally Gives Men the Taste for Free Institutions
CHAPTER 2a: That the Ideas of Democratic Peoples in Matters of Government Naturally Favor the Concentration of Powersb
CHAPTER 3: That the Sentiments of Democratic Peoples Are in Agreement with Their Ideas for Bringing Them to Concentrate Powera
CHAPTER 4a: Of Some Particular and Accidental Causes That End up Leading a Democratic People to Centralize Power or That Turn Them Away from Doing Sob
CHAPTER 5: That among the European Nations of Today the Sovereign Power Increases Although Sovereigns Are Less Stablea
CHAPTER 6: What Type of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Feara
CHAPTER 7a: Continuation of the Preceding Chapters
CHAPTER 8a: General View of the Subjectb
Notes
APPENDIX 1: Journey to Lake Oneidaa
APPENDIX 2: A Fortnight in the Wildernessa
APPENDIX 3: Sects in Americaa
APPENDIX 4: Political Activity in Americaa
APPENDIX 5: Letter of Alexis de Tocqueville to Charles Stoffels
APPENDIX 6: Foreword to the Twelfth Edition
Works Used by Tocqueville
Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography