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Rev. Samuel l/UhiNng. 83<br />

in the deserts of the New World, and became<br />

the symbol of a great people. The boldest<br />

theories of the human understanding were<br />

reduced to practice in this society, apparently<br />

so humble, and of which, assuredly at that time,<br />

no statesman had deigned to take notice. In-<br />

spired by the originality of nature, the imagi-<br />

nation of man there struck out a legislation<br />

not founded on precedents."<br />

"I have already said enough to place in its<br />

true light the character of the Anglo-American<br />

civilization. It is the product (and this point<br />

of departure must be constantly borne in<br />

mind) of two elements entirely distinct, and<br />

elsewhere often found in opposition to each<br />

other, but which the Americans have succeed-<br />

ed in incorporating with each other and<br />

bringing into marvellous combination: I<br />

mean the s_irit of religion, and the s2Oirit of<br />

liberly."<br />

De Tocqueville attributes the success of the<br />

American people in uniting "the spirit of reli-<br />

gion with the spirit of liberty," to the entire<br />

separation of the Church and the State. How,

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