Democracy in America Volume 1Kessinger Publishing, 2004 - Political Science THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. But what now remains of those barriers which formerly arrested the aggressions of tyranny? Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary which divided good from evil is overthrown; the very elements of the moral world are indeterminate; the princes and the peoples of the earth are guided by chance, and none can define the natural limits of despotism and the bounds of license. |