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" The gradual development of the equality of conditions is, therefore, a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree : it is universal, it is durable, it constantly eludes all human interference, and all events, as well... "
Democracy in America: Volume I - Page xxviii
by John Bigelow, Alexis de Tocqueville - 1899 - 416 pages
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Democracy in America, Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 500 pages
...equality of conditions is there. fore a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a Divine decree : it is universal, it is durable,...well as all men contribute to its progress. Would it, theh. be wise to imagine that a social impulse which dates from so far back, cai. be checked by the...
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Democracy in America, Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 714 pages
...equality of conditions is there* fore a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a Divine decree : it is universal, it is durable,...interference, and all events as well as all men contribute to ita progress. Would it, then, be wise to imagine that a social impulse which dates from so far back,...
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Principles of Political Economy, Parts 3-4

Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1840 - 286 pages
...conditions is, therefore," he thinks, " a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree: it is universal, it is durable, it...as well as all men, contribute to its progress."! Here our good and evil passions are made equally to contribute towards the execution of "a divine decree;"...
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Principles of Political Economy, Part 3

Henry Charles Carey - Business & Economics - 1840 - 290 pages
...conditions is, therefore," he thinks, " a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree: it is universal, it is durable, it...all events, as well as all men, contribute to its progress."f Here our good and evil passions are made equally to contribute towards the execution of...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 72

1841 - 602 pages
...the equality of conditions is therefore a providential fact, and possesses all the characteristics of a Divine decree : it is universal, it is durable,...well as all men contribute to its progress. ' Would ft be wise to imagine that a social impulse which dates from so far back can be checked by the efforts...
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A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at ...

Catharine Esther Beecher - Home economics - 1843 - 394 pages
...equality of conditions, is, therefore, a Providential fact ; and it possesses all the characteristics of a Divine decree : it is universal, it is durable,...events, as well as all men, contribute to its progress." " The whole book, which is here offered to the public, has been written under the impression of a kind...
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review

Religion - 1845 - 816 pages
...expressed the resistlessness of this tendency in human affairs: "It possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree ; it is universal, it is durable,...events as well as all men contribute to its progress." In fact, we live in a wonderful age, when all nations are stalling from slumber, and are moving upwards....
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The Biblical repositor (and quarterly observer) [afterw.] The American ...

Edward Robinson - 1845 - 830 pages
...expressed the resistlessness of this tendency in human affairs: "It possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree ; it is universal, it is durable,...events as well as all men contribute to its progress." In fact, we live in a wonderful age, when all nations are starting from slumber, and are moving upwards....
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The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Volume 1

Theology - 1845 - 818 pages
...expressed the resistlessness of this tendency in human affairs: "It possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree ; it is universal, it is durable,...events as well as all men contribute to its progress." In fact, we live in a wonderful age, when all nations are starting from slumber, and are moving upwards....
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Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1848 - 916 pages
...equality of conditions is, therefore, a providential fact, and it possesses all the characteristics of a divine decree : it is universal, it is durable,...progress. Would it, then, be wise to imagine that a social unpulse which dates from so far back, can be checked by the efforts of a generation 7 Is it credible...
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