America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of amelioration.
L'Américain habite une terre de prodiges; autour de lui tout se remue sans cesse, et chaque mouvement semble un progrès. L'idée du nouveau se lie donc intimement dans son esprit à l'idée du mieux.
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Original Citation
Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 1, London: Saunders and Otley, 1835, ch. 18, pt. 10.
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Current Citation
Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 1, ch. 18, pt. 10.
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