 States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America...  Democracy in America: Volume I - Page 300by John Bigelow, Alexis de Tocqueville - 1899 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 500 pages
...manner ; but all the sects preach the same moral law in the name of God. If it be of the slightest importance to man; as an individual, that his religion...in which the Christian religion retains a greater in. fluence over the souls of men than in America ; and there can be no greater proof of its utility,... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - Africa - 1840 - 504 pages
...; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of free institutions. "§ " It may be believed without unfairness, that a certain...men than in America ; and there can be no greater * Democracy in America, page 292. ^ Ib. p 295. t Ib. p. 289. § Ib. p. 286. proof of its utility, and... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1840 - 536 pages
...from among ourselves — carried back to the old world no such report. His deliberate testimony is, " There is no country in the whole world, in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America ; and," he adds like a true philosopher, " there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity... | |
 | Religion - 1840 - 1078 pages
...from among ourselves — carried back to the old world no such report. His deliberate testimony is, " There is no country in the whole world, in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America ; and," he adds like a true philosopher, " there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 534 pages
...from among ourselves — carried back to the old world no such report. His deliberate testimony is, " There is no country in the whole world, in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America ; and," he adds like a true philosopher, " there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1850 - 256 pages
...but it directs the manners of the community, and by regulating domestic life, it regulates the State. There is no country in the whole world, in which the...influence over the souls of men, than in America." The indispensable necessity of Christianity as a conservative power, in view of our peculiar character... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...form of worship, from habit more than from conviction. In the United States the sovereign authority ui religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common...can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformic y to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - Christianity - 1851 - 136 pages
...strongly contradicted by other testimony, fully worthy of credit. Do Tocqueville, for example, says, " In the United States the sovereign authority is religious,...influence over the souls of men than in America."* It is also inconsistent with the Captain's own admissions. How, for example, can this statement be... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - Apologetics - 1852 - 692 pages
...States. De Tocqueville asserts, that " there is no country in the whole world in which the Christiaa religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America ;" and he adds — " There can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity to human nature,... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - Freedom of religion - 1859 - 162 pages
...manners of the community, and by regulating domestic life, it regulates the State. Nor is there any country in the whole world, in which the Christian...utility, and of its conformity to human nature, than the fact that its influence is here felt most powerfully over the most enlightened and free nation... | |
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