HIS 108 Chapter Notes - Chapter 66: Alexis De Tocqueville
27 Apr 2019
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Our national birth was the beginning of a new history, the formation and progress of an untried may confidently assume that our contra is destined to be the great nation of futurity. The principle upon which a nation is organized fixes its destiny, so equality is a good one: nations of the past were terrible abut equality, but america is destined for better deeds. It"s a good thing that america is somewhat removed from history, its" newer. We have no interest in the scenes of antiquity, only as lessons of avoidance of nearly all their examples. The expansive future is out arena, and for our history. We are the nation of progress, of individual freedom, of universal enfranchisement. Even though, as we"ll see, this wasn"t true equality, it was still a wonderful thing to establish a country on. He also notes: how is this an argument for the doctrine of manifest destiny ? continent.
