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Dorothea dismissed M. de Tocqueville with a bow, passed into the dark passage and pushed open the coffee-room door. Within sat a young man, his elbows on the table, and his face bowed upon his arms. His fingers convulsively twisted a torn scrap of bunting; his shoulders heaved. It was M. Raoul. Dorothea paused in the doorway and spoke his name. He did not look up. She stepped towards him.
The guests took their departure a little before sunset. M. Raoul was not among the long train which shook hands with her and filed down the avenue at the heels of M. de Tocqueville and General Rochambeau.
"A new and fair division of the goods and rights of this world should be the main object of all those who conduct human affairs," said De Tocqueville.
It is now nearly half a century since the works of De Tocqueville and De Beaumont, founded upon personal observation, brought the institutions of the United States effectually within the circle of European thought and interest. They were co-operators, but not upon an equal scale.
You see, two- thirds of them are gentlemen, after a fashion; not, perhaps, quite in the sense in which we understand the word, but then the ah modicum of French blood in my veins counteracts, I dare say, some little insular prejudices." "My dear fellow, about such men as de Tocqueville and Rochambeau there can be no possible question." "Ah! I'm extremely glad to hear you say so.
In the United States there is neither a State religion nor a religion declared to be that of the majority, nor the predominance of one cult over another. The State is alien to all cults. Yet North America is pre-eminently the country of religiosity, as Beaumont, Tocqueville and the Englishman Hamilton assure us with one voice. Meanwhile, the North American States only serve us as an example.
At the soiree given by M. De Tocqueville, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and the other fetes given to the Members of the Congress, Mr. Brown was received with marked attention. Having finished his Peace mission in France, he commenced an Anti-slavery tour in England and Scotland.
This was evidently the opinion of Tocqueville, who was strongly persuaded that the natural result of democracy was a highly concentrated, enervating, but mild despotism. It is the opinion of many of the most eminent contemporary thinkers in France and Germany, and it is, I think, steadily growing in England. This does not mean that parliaments will cease, or that a wide suffrage will be abolished.
His introduction, published in 1853, several years before the volume of Tocqueville, has so much in common with it, that it was suggested that he might have read the earlier article by Tocqueville, which John Mill translated for the Westminster Review. But Sybel assured me that he had not seen it.
"'Soon's Clay's e lect ed. "'Ahem, ahem! "'What's the matter, Sukey? "'Sposing he ain't e lect ed? "We came away." Verily, Monsieur De Tocqueville, you are in the right democracy is an inherent principle.
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