ABSTRACT
Among the novel objects that attracted the Alexis De Tocqueville attention during his stay in the United States, nothing struck the Alexis De Tocqueville more forcibly than general equality of conditions. He hold it to be an impious and an execiable maxim that, politically speaking, a people has a right to do whatsoever it pleases; and yet the Alexis De Tocqueville have asserted that all authority originates in the will of the majority. It is in the examination of the display of public opinion in the United States, that people clearly perceive how far the power of the majority surpasses all the powers with which people are acquainted in Europe. Before the Alexis De Tocqueville close forever the theme that has detained him so long, he would fain take a parting survey of all the various characteristics of modern society, and appreciate at last the general influence to be exercised by the principle of equality upon the fate of mankind.
