 ... provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to...  Democracy in America - Pàgina 235per Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Smyth - 1843 - 348 pàgines
...subjects for manhood ; but it is, on the contrary, only adapted to keep them in perpetual childhood, to spare them all the care of thinking, and all the trouble of living, and gradually to rob man of all use of himself. To employ the powerful language of our author,* ' after... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1864 - 528 pàgines
...necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances...them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of li ving ? Thus, it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908 - 620 pàgines
...subjects for manhood ; but it is, on the contrary, only adapted to keep them in perpetual childhood, to spare them all the care of thinking, and all the trouble of living, and gradually to rob man of all use of himself. To employ the powerful language of our author,:}: 'after... | |
 | 1918 - 1048 pàgines
...necessities, facilitates their pleasure, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances,...the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? ... I have always thought that servitude of the regular, quiet, and gentle kind which I have just described,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1980 - 402 pàgines
...necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances...the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? self. The principle of equality has prepared men for these things: it has predisposed men to endure... | |
 | John H. Schaar - 1981 - 372 pàgines
...and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures . . . , directs their industry ... — what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? . . . After having thus . . . taken each member ... in its powerful grasp . . . the supreme power then... | |
 | Michael Novak - 1984 - 316 pàgines
...necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances:...the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? . . . the supreme power then . . . covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated... | |
 | Michel Griffon - 1992 - 254 pàgines
...all problems in human societies. Tocqueville understood the deep anomaly. «What remains», he asked, «but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?» ([1840] 1945, II: 318). «Citizens», so-called, become «more than kings and less than men» (ibid.:... | |
 | Henry Steele Commager - 1993 - 148 pàgines
...necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances...the care of thinking and all the trouble of living? Such a power, he concluded in his extraordinary anticipation of some aspects of the welfare state,... | |
 | James B. Bryce - 1993 - 204 pàgines
...church, and neighborhood fade in importance, and as government increasingly stands in their place, "it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent."26 Under these conditions is it any wonder that individuals retreat from civic duty? As Tocqueville... | |
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